F-13-Beta Live images are > 700Mib

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:59 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:21 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:50 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > 
> > > So the new size limit for desktop live images will be 1G or 1Gib?
> > 
> > 1GiB.  2^30, not 10^9.
> 
> Why? It seems backwards to use 1GiB instead of 1GB - most 1GB USB sticks
> only hold 1GB, not 1GiB. And the whole point of this excursion was to
> fit on 1GB USB sticks. Well, one of the points anyway.
> 
> Anyway, it still seems to me that these two statements are still true
> 
>  a) 2GB sticks are not really more expensive than 1GB sticks
>     (see list archives for other people seconding this impression)
> 
>  b) we're already low on space for 1GB/1GiB and we don't even
>     have anything like hires Theora videos yet. And we want to
>     leave some space for a persistent overlay.
> 
> Also, I think I've asked this twice on this list already... without
> anyone caring to respond. Matthias, Colin, please respond...
> 

My understanding was that 1GB would be 'up to 1GB of data' - if you want
a persistent overlay, use a bigger stick... leaving room for a
usefully-sized overlay within 1GB would seem to clash with the
additional size requirements for OpenOffice alone.


Matthias