[haiku-development] Changing the Haiku-Files Image Size
- From: "Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:34:46 +0200
Hi All
Since I'm not quite sure who is responsible for the Haiku images over at
haiku-files.org (I assume its Sikosis' work?), I'm writing here for my
proposal. Currently the images that are generated are exactly 250MB in size.
This would theoretically fit nicely on a 256MB device, however from what I've
seen this is not really the case. For one the devices marketed are mostly
250MB and not 256MB because of the 2^10 calculation and often there are just
some MBs missing. What happens is that the image does not really fit on a
supposedly matching device and copied over default images are unusable. As
seen in bug #2587 there are at least two people with devices where this has
happened, and in fact it has happened to me as well with a "256" MB
CompactFlash card. Since old 256er memory sticks and flash media are such a
perfectly inexpensive and easy way to test Haiku it is a bit unfortunate that
these exact devices are not usable because of just a few MBs. Since the only
real way to get around that is to build an image yourself, involving the whole
checkout and build setup it's not really a solution when you just want to take
a quick look. Therefore I propose the image size to be slightly reduced.
Something like 230MB should be pretty safe, even if the device is in fact
missing some MBs. In the case of bug #2587 there were 4.5MBs missing for
example. Would that be acceptable?
Regards
Michael
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