iso file size after decompression, overburning

Matthew Dillon dillon at backplane.com
Thu Aug 18 17:19:43 PDT 2016


Its getting harder and harder to fit a reasonable base dist onto a CD.  I
really recommend using the USB disk image instead of trying to burn an ISO.

-Matt

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear DragonflyBSD users,
>
> In previous versions of dfly, the size of iso was <=2 702/703 MB and
> it was okay to burn on a cd.
> version 4.4.3 went about 715MB and I used overburn option in cdrecord.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 olivares users 243626574 Aug  1 13:46
> dfly-x86_64-4.6.0_REL.iso.bz2
>
> after decompresion:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 olivares users 750368768 Aug  1 13:46
> dfly-x86_64-4.6.0_REL.iso
>
> which is about 716 according to k3b.  Do you recommend me burning a
> DVD instead of using overburning?  Do I need to worry about files
> missing if I use overburn with a cd?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Antonio
>
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