4.5 Omegas

[Highlandish]

Don't even need to drag/drop.
open the CD, select all files, select properties: file size shows as
over a gig

yup, that's what I am talking about, can the ISO file be made with
compression included? the individual file size when viewing the contents of
an iso will remain the original size, but is compressed as a whole. the new
compressed iso file will fit on a cd, and when officially extracted the
correct way will be twice the size. I have to assume that this is what is
happening, but I am curious enough to be corrected if there are any
knowledgeable takers.

 

[Asestar]

Nope, That's exatly the symptoms for DummyFiles. If you select the drive
with cd in, and check properties, it shows up like 650-700mb.

If you open the drive, select all, properties shows well over a Gig.

I just tried a ehm backed-up-cd*cough*pirated*cough* version of DeltaForce
black hawk down. Size of the drive is 673Mb, if i select all files, their
size is 4.05Gb! Now if I copy all files to my d drive, it takes 4.07Gb of
disk space. When I install the game, it takes about 900Mb.

 

[Highlandish]

Nope, That's exatly the symptoms for DummyFiles. If you select the
drive with cd in, and check properties, it shows up like 650-700mb.

If you open the drive, select all, properties shows well over a Gig.

I just tried a ehm backed-up-cd*cough*pirated*cough* version of
DeltaForce black hawk down. Size of the drive is 673Mb, if i select
all files, their size is 4.05Gb! Now if I copy all files to my d
drive, it takes 4.07Gb of disk space. When I install the game, it
takes about 900Mb.

but why would a free version of Knoppix, a free Linux distro, have dummy
files when they needed every byte of space to include as much as possible?

 

[Asestar]

I really don't know that. But that does not mean it's not "dummy files".
If such a compression technology ever existed, why in world do you think
games like FarCry, Ut2004, Newerwinter nights, Enter the matrix, Gothic 2
(many more) would ship on 3-5 cd's?? 5cd's contain 703*5= 3,5Gb!
Don't you think they would be using 1 cd's with 4 Gb on it, rather than
expensive Dvd or much heavier 3-5cd's (more shipping weight = less games per
tonn = expensive shipping)

 

[Slug]

I really don't know that. But that does not mean it's not "dummy files".
If such a compression technology ever existed, why in world do you think
games like FarCry, Ut2004, Newerwinter nights, Enter the matrix, Gothic 2
(many more) would ship on 3-5 cd's?? 5cd's contain 703*5= 3,5Gb!
Don't you think they would be using 1 cd's with 4 Gb on it, rather than
expensive Dvd or much heavier 3-5cd's (more shipping weight = less games per
tonn = expensive shipping)

Well, Knoppix does have 2.8gb of data on one cdrom so obviously the
game companies haven't clued in to how Knoppix does it yet.