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Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:45:08 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installation error on eCS 2.0 Beta 4

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Steven Levine wrote:
> In <46204EA9.1050906@san.rr.com>, on 04/13/07
> at 08:46 PM, Tom Brown said:
>
>> The eCS 2.0 Beta 4 CD shows:
>
>> Total files listed:
>> 11,178 file(s) 744,476,223 bytes used
>> 0 bytes free
>

The details tab on the drive object shows 715,128,832 bytes which is the
exact size of the .ISO I started with. Why the great difference?

> That's a lot. I'm surprise your burner software did not complain.
>
>> This is on a CD (TDK CD-R, 80 min) rated at 700 MB! Looks like eCS 2.0
>> will have to be split onto 2 CDs or a DVD. The iso is 715,128,832 bytes.
>
> There's a lot that can be trimmed from CD#1. There's always going to be a
> CD#2.
>
>> Are other types of media better? I am using mostly Plextor drives, SCSI,
>> IDE, and SATA. The one on my T42p is a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-812.
>
> Newer drives are genrally better at burning to the edges. I will admit to
> doing things my way and have been know to delete some files before
> generating an ISO image. This allows me to add some testing support at
> the expense of a couple of the unicode fonts.
>
> Steven
>

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Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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