Desktop Live DVD: diff

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > The image size is 1022 M. 
> > 
> > This is likely too big, remember drive manufacturers don't really use
> > units like KiB MiB or GiB - they use 1K = 1000, 1M = 1,000,000 and 1G =
> > 1,000,000,000 - e.g. the SI units.
> > 
> > It seems to me that most 1GB USB keys have a size of 1GB = 1,000M =
> > 1,000,000,000 bytes. Some are 1024MB (1024,000,000,000 bytes), some may
> > be a bit smaller (e.g. "value-adds" like the Sandisk U3 "CD-ROM") while
> > some may actually be 1024 MiB (1,099,511,627,776 bytes). It varies.
> 
> Moreover, the closer you get to the full size, the less space you'll
> have for any overlay.

Good point. A quick search on the Internet suggests that 2GB sticks can
be had for < $10. So maybe we should just bite the bullet and target 2GB
keys and do a 1.7GB (1,700,000,000 bytes) image leaving ~300MB free for
the overlay. 

Then leaves both wiggle-room and also enables us to include *compelling*
stuff like Ogg Theora videos featuring Shadowman etc etc.

    David