knoppix 3.8.1 iso size?

[bs_texas]

I'm downloading knoppix 3.8.1. Firefox downloader tells me it's 702.7MB. My CD-R's and CD-RW's all say they are 700MB.

I assume that's one of those - don't worry about it, it'll be ok - things...:rolleyes:

I suppose that once you actually burn the image to CD, then 2.7MB of the download was just fluff anyway. ;)

[ph34r]

It will fit, probably a math error from FF. Also, check the md5sum since it is possible for the browser to pad ti with bad data. If your md5 matches at the end of the download, you are fine. If it doesn't match, you can make it match via rsync.

[Icarus]

Maybe they assume overburn?

[bs_texas]

It must be some of that new math.
Sitting in the iso directory, it's only 686.3MB and the md5sum is correct.

Now if I can just figure out how to burn this to CD with ubuntu hoary...

[bs_texas]

Seek and ye shall find:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/BurningIsoHowto/view?searchterm=burn%20iso

[bs_texas]

As with much of my linux experience, that doesn't work. A 'writing' dialog comes up with a little spinning disk icon, but nothing else happens, no cpu activity, no CD drive lights, no hard disk activity.

Time to revisit cdrecord, I reckon.

[NotJustANewbie]

Use K3B. I used it to burn my copy of Knoppix 3.8.1 [EN]

No overburning required. Firefox's file sizes are often slightly off for me too. I wouldn't take any notice...
Just make sure you check the MD5 Checksum ;)

[cybertron]

Originally posted by bs_texas
It must be some of that new math.
Sitting in the iso directory, it's only 686.3MB and the md5sum is correct.
Probably a difference in how they calculate the size. Firefox most likely uses 1000000 bytes per MB, while in reality it should be 2 ^ 20 bytes per MB as your file manager reports.

[SpookyFox]

Burn the CD using Ubuntu Hoary...

Right click on the .iso and select Write to CD.

That writes it all perfectly. I did it last night with the iso for the LFS LiveCD.

Hope that helps a little...

[bs_texas]

I was using ubuntu hoary, as linked to in one of my previous posts back up there.

Another possibility was to reboot into Windows 2000 and burn the CD with Nero. :eek:

My goal was to burn the knoppix CD and do something with it, not to futz around trying to figure a way to burn the CD. Now that I've burned the CD, retrieved some files off the old Win98 machine that I was having problems with, and then installed slackware on the machine, I can go back and futz around with ubuntu and cdrecord and k3b, etc.

[MorphiusFaydal]

cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd knoppix-3.8.1.iso

replace /dev/hdd w/ the /dev/ path of your cd-burner

[j79zlr]

Originally posted by MorphiusFaydal
cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd knoppix-3.8.1.iso

replace /dev/hdd w/ the /dev/ path of your cd-burner

I prefer cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdd knoppix-3.8.1.iso so I can see the progress :)

[bs_texas]

Yeah, I tried that, but it didn't work. I forget now what the problem was. I'll be testing it again here in a couple of days, probably.

[MorphiusFaydal]

Originally posted by MorphiusFaydal
cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd knoppix-3.8.1.iso

replace /dev/hdd w/ the /dev/ path of your cd-burner

hmm.. i'll have to try that next time :)