[haiku-development] Re: Changing the Haiku-Files Image Size
- From: "Jorge Mare" <kokitomare@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:35:10 -0700
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
+1
Jorge
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