[haiku-development] Re: Changing the Haiku-Files Image Size
- From: Sikosis <sikosis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:29:01 +1000
Hi Michael,
Sorry ... it was public holiday yesterday, so didn't get a chance to read
your email til today. I'll get right on it.
Cheers
Sikosis
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM, 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?
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
>
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