Hey all I have a questions for you (obviously )

I'm downloading Mandrake 9.2 to see how flashy and all this os is (I run gentoo and I'm a intermediate linux user) and I jump on to my brothers pc (windows) and I download the 9.2 iso's. I burn the first one using nero 6 and the second iso/cd keeps spitting the cd out saying the iso is too big?? I check the cd, its a 700mb disk. I went to the store looking for a bigger disk and (I don't even know why I looked I knew there wasn't gonna be one) the biggest they have is a 700 so... had anyone else ran into this problem?????

The 700MB disks should be fine (since the ISOs are less than 700MB).
The question is if you're doing something odd when trying to burn the ISOs.
And have you tried a different burner program, maybe that solves your problem.
/j.

The iso file says it's 714 mb

On

the CD2 image is 697 MB, so you might have a wrong image. Try re-downloading and see if that helps.

All 3 CD's burnt fine for me from the above FTP.

I don't have broadband and have located ISO images for 9.2 on a magazine DVD
CD1 is definately 714MB!

??

do you think maybe you are burning the iso as a file and not as an image?
or maybe nero is being dense about it.
an iso image with 700 megs of files in it is well over 700 megs in size.

for example, i just made a 700 meg file in my linux filesystem.
under ls -l it shows 716800 in one column and 734,003,200 in the
other column. i made an iso of it, and it was just a few k bigger.

Hi.

I think there must be some confusion, I have to agree with iNFERiON that the size of the ISO image "Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso" is 697.9MB, but the "size on disk" is (731,797,504).

I was able to burn this image with Nero using a Silver TDK 80min/700MB CD-R

1. Open Nero (click 'Cancel' if the wizard window opens)
2. Choose File---> Burn Image.
3. Open the image file.
4. Leave all the settings at default and click on "Burn".

You may have to reset the settings to "factory default" if you changed something.

all i can say to that is, if it says its 714mb then yes its too big ... why is it that big? i do not know, so unless you try downloading another one, or trying overburning or something, your not going to be able to burn it ...
heres how everything works .... you fall into the second category... which your max is 703 mb ... and i mean before the converstion to the actual size .. just like how whansard has shown in his post ...
1-) Data capacity in Mb for an audio-CD
74 min
= 333,000 sectors * 2352 bytes / sector
= 783216000 bytes
= 746.9 Mb

80 min
= 360,000 sectors * 2352 bytes / sector
= 846720000 bytes
= 807.5 Mb


2-) Data capacity in Mb for a CD-ROM
74 min
= 333,000 sectors * 2048 bytes / sector
= 681984000 bytes
= 650.4 Mb

80 min
= 360,000 sectors * 2048 bytes / sector
= 737280000 bytes
= 703.1 Mb


3-) Data capacity in Mb for a S/VCD
74 min
= 333,000 sectors * 2324 bytes / sector
= 773892000 bytes
= 738.0 Mb

80 min
= 360,000 sectors * 2324 bytes / sector
= 836640000 bytes
= 797.9 Mb

This is a problem with Nero so it needs patched. Without the patch Nero thinks 1 gig is 1000MB instead of 1024. so if you patch your nero it will burn fine. here is the link

http://www.ahead.de/de/631998579711357.html

Its in german but the patch will work reguardless