size of the files

[phoenixpb]

why files are bigger than 700 megs
just to know :D
it don't matter because i use a sd card to test them

[jpollard]

I don't understand your question. Files are bigger than 700 MB if they contain more than 700MB of data.

[Adunaic]

I'm not sure I understand your question. What files are you referring to?
Since you quote the value 700 Mb I am tempted to assume you mean the Fedora live cd iso's.

If so Fedora 14 is less than 700Mb, one of the earlier live CD was larger than this, but I believe the intention was for an install from USB instead of CD.

Okay, I just noticed that this is in rawhide and that their appear to be some F15 nightlies are available. In this case the answer is different. Looking at :http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Who_should_use_Rawhide.3F give the following answer

"These are built automatically without manual tweaking or testing, so they will sometimes be beyond the size of a single CD, and sometimes may not work at all."

[phoenixpb]

i mean the nightly compose files
and bigger than 700 megs mean you can t burn them in a cd

[Adunaic]

Looks like I edited at the same time as you replied. Just glance at the bottom of my previous post.

[Smoking Tux]

Today blank CD's are available up to 900MB, further you can burn the image to a DVD, usb flash drives are also available for moderate payment, so I think it doesn't matter..?!
However, maybe I've even missunderstood something..:C

[phoenixpb]

i was just curious to know why they are so big
i use a 2 gig sdcard to test the files with fedora live usb creator