f11 alpha x86_64 live KDE image too large to fit on CD?

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:29:11 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" wrote:

> 
>   i downloaded the set of F11 alpha live images and all burned to CD
> properly except for the one above, which k3b rejected as being too
> large to fit on a CD:
> 
> 667088896 2009-02-06 13:04 F11-Alpha-i686-Live.iso
> 731385856 2009-02-06 13:07 F11-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.iso
> 671713280 2009-02-06 13:06 F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso
> 737335296 2009-02-06 13:06 F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso
> 
>   that has to be awfully close to the maximum capacity.  is that
> really too large?  and why put out an image that just ever so slightly
> goes over the limit?  or am i misreading something?
> 
> rday
> --

Brasero gave me the same warning, but it volunteered to try an overburn.
OK, sez I, let's give it a shot. While the resultant CD passed both
Brasero's verification procedure and Fedora's on-disk verification, it
is the slowest live CD I've ever used -- it took 9 minutes to do the
verification and then boot to the desktop. Even then, it was way too
slow -- as in 14 seconds to open Konsole. The logs were loaded with avc
denials; nothing about hardware problems. Odd, since F10 runs quite
nicely on this box. I also downloaded the DVD and I'll install it on a
spare partition this weekend.

-- cmg