cd image sizes?

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:56 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:34 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > I've downloaded the CD images and started to write them to CD-RW, only
> > to find that they require 700MB blanks.  Is this an oversight or
> > intentional?
> > 
> 
> It was intentional for this release.  Our sizes were creeping again, and
> it was either bump to a higher number of CDs or bump the size of the
> CDs.  In the past, larger CD sizes caused problems.  We were hoping to
> see if there was any complaints this time around to see if we can safely
> bump it in a more perm manner.
> 

I have not found any 650mb CDs for over a year (and would not have
purchased them if available).  I certainly see no problem with the
larger size.