Our download page:
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
says the F29 live image is 1.8 GB, but this is not true. It's actually 1,931,476,992 bytes, which rounds down to 1.9 GB. That happens to be 1.799 GiB, so 1.8 GiB would be reasonable, but the download page says GB, not GiB. My guess is it's improperly doing its computation in GiB, and nobody noticed before now because the live image was previously not large enough for the difference between GB and GiB to actually matter.
We should consider rounding up, anyway, and reporting 2.0 GB, because a 1.9 GB USB drive would not be large enough to hold the 1.93 GB image. This will become a practical problem very soon because soon we'll be reporting that the download image is 2.0 GB large, and users will be trying to flash it to 2.0 GB USB drives, and they will be disappointed when it doesn't work.
Moved from https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/86
This will become a practical problem very soon because soon we'll be reporting that the download image is 2.0 GB large, and users will be trying to flash it to 2.0 GB USB drives, and they will be disappointed when it doesn't work.
(I mean: soon the ever-increasing media size will surpass 2.0 GB. Say it will reach 2.01 GB. We should consider rounding up to 2.1 GB because the media will not fit a 2.0 GB storage device.)
Metadata Update from @ryanlerch: - Issue assigned to ryanlerch
Okay, just to confirm, we have several values on this page, so we may as well make sure they are all correct. currently we have:
64 Bit workstation live ISO: 1.8GB 32-bit workstation live ISO: 1.6GB 64-bit netinstall image: 593MB 32-bit netinstall image: 536MB 64-bit Silverblue image: 2.0GB
@catanzaro are you able to update this list with the values these should be? i can update the page from there.
I guess if values are manually-calculated, then rounding up isn't so important unless we pass the 2.0 GB barrier.
Anyway, whoever calculated the sizes indeed accidentally converted from MB to MiB. E.g. 622 (actual size of 64-bit netinstall) MB = 593 MiB (the advertised size). We should provide the values in GB/MB, of course.
64 Bit workstation live ISO: advertised 1.8GB, actually 1,931,476,992 bytes -> should advertise 1.9 GB (or 2.0 GB if we round up) 32-bit workstation live ISO: advertised 1.6GB, actually 1,889,533,952 bytes -> should advertise 1.9 GB 64-bit netinstall image: advertised 593MB, actually 621,805,568 bytes -> should advertise 622 MB 32-bit netinstall image: advertised 536MB, actually 576,716,800 bytes -> should advertise 577 MB 64-bit Silverblue image: advertised 2.0GB, actually 2,112,880,640 bytes -> should advertise 2.1 GB (or 2.2 GB if we round up)
Can someone from the websites team please acknowledge this issue? Thanks.
The new (current) download pages on getfedora.org don't show media size, so this can be closed
Metadata Update from @codeblock: - Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix / Can't fix - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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