Validity of the CD size limit nowadays [Re: Features/ArchitectureSupport - changing what we build for]

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Feb 7 14:04:20 UTC 2009


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 15:10:25 +0530,
>   Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> Because then it can't be used to transfer files to and from windows systems
>>> without booting from it.
>> http://www.fs-driver.org/
> 
> But you can't count on that being installed and may not be in a position
> to install it when you want to copy over files. 

Copy the installer into the USB device and install it when you need to. 
There are other similar choices even if you don't have administrative 
access.

Similar to not being able
> to be able to count on being able to boot off a usb device and have it mount
> the Windows system's file systems.

IIRC, ntfs-3g is installed by default.

Rahul




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