Tired of making coasters

[David Timms]

David G. Miller wrote:
> I've tried two different burners and the most data I can fit onto a 
> 700MB CDR seems to be about 733MB.  The image for the x86_64 Fedora 7 
> live CD is 780MB (817156096 bytes).  Anyone have any suggestions as to 
> how to fit the x86_64 ISO image onto a 700MB CDR?  I'm attempting to 
> write the ISO to either of:
> 
> [root at bend ~]# cat /proc/ide/hdb/model
> CR-48X9TE (Mitsumi)
> [root at bend ~]# cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
> SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A
> 
> using K3B and the blank CDRs are Memorex 700MB CDRs.  The best result 
> was with the Sony DVD burner which managed to write 733MB before getting 
> an error.  Is there a different media manufacturer who produces blank 
> CDRs with more capacity?  
There are, but see below:

> Alternatively, can I just write the CD ISO to 
> a DVD+R?
Yes - I think that is the intent for the x86_64 images - it is just too 
much data:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Live.html

You can use a 1GB flash drive !

DaveT