Snap Releases

[Bill Davidsen]

rjames wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:01 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:27:52PM -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>
>>>> What are these FC 10 Snap 1, 2 releases, ISO's ??
>>>> I have FC 10 Beta installed and a lot of problems.
>>>>
>>> Most are related to getting the XO hardware working with F10
>>> (explore http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki [1])
>>>
>> Actually, the Snaps are a more general part of the release process now
>> so that we can get more testing of media-based things beyond just alpha
>> + beta + preview release.
>>
>> There's just a nice side effect that they're handy and work out well for
>> some of the testing on the XO :)
>>
>> Jeremy
> 
>>
> If you guys are going to be using these in the future for live cd's, you need to make sure you aren't overburning these things because a hell of a lot of cd/dvd burners *DON'T* support this, and the snap 3 386 live cd iso are overburned [703 megs instead of the standard 650/702 megs].
> 
> None of my Liteon dvd burners support overburning and I don't think the older sony cdwr drive I have in a older computer supports it either.
> 
> If you are going to be overburning these things, at least say so, so people won't waste their time downloading something that's going to be unusable on their machines.
> 
It's easy to look at the size of the image and the capacity of the CD and decide 
if it will fit. I have 720 and 730 CDs from an obscure source called Office Max. 
You can often get them from newegg as well, I never ordered anything special, 
they just came that way.

You may have to use the overburn option to cdrecord, I don't ever recall doing 
that, but it's there. I use the cdrecord from the author rather than the hack 
one which comes with Fedora and some other distributions, that might be a factor.

In short, I burn these on a variety of burners, CD and DVD, and have no problem 
with the size. You might have some small media, in which case a quick investment 
  would be in order, but larger sizes are available.

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