[ale] MXLinux install issues

[Scott McBrien]

It’s not marketing per se.  

Storage vendors use tens to calculate size of storage.  So 8G is 8000M or 8,000,000 K or 8,000,000,000 Bytes of data.

However computers, using binary, don’t count my tens, but instead powers of two. So in computer parlance, 8G is 8192M or 8,388,608 K or 8,589,934,592 Bytes.

So if we take the storage manufacturers number of bytes, but use 1024 to uplevel it,
8,000,000,000 Bytes
7,812,500K
7629.39 M
7.45 G

To address this differential, the National Institute KD Standards and Technology (NIST) uses two units of measurement.  The K,M,G units still refer to power of ten based measurements. However for those things that use a binary measurement, we use KiB (KibbyBytes), MiB (MibbyBytes), GiB (Gibbybytes) etc.  So the storage manufacturer’s 8GB is correct, the file reporting from the ftp server or ls or whatever should be 8GiB.

I’ve seen newer file tools on Linux use the correct standard unit abbreviations.

-STM

> On Apr 19, 2022, at 10:18 PM, Lnx Gnome via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> SpaXpert, that's no lie.
> 
> N, use a bigger SD card.  It's not really 8GB (it's 7.7GB and you need 7.8GB).  The marketing people who label things have funny maths.
> 
> --LG
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:11 PM SpaXpert, Inc. via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> Stop trying to install linux bullshit distro's. I'm likely to be killed for saying this.
>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:09 PM Narahari 'n' Savitha via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>> Friends:
>>> 
>>> I finally removed the SSD from my laptop with a special screw bit from Husky that I bought at Home Depot.
>>> 
>>> I am trying to install the MXLinux OS on the laptop to a SD card.(8GB in size)
>>> 
>>> When I try to install I see the following
>>> 
>>> Pic 1:  As you can see I am unable to select any device, when using the entire disk.
>>> https://i.imgur.com/JOzWr35.jpg
>>> 
>>> Pic 2: In the second picture here, it keeps complaining about the root partition.
>>> https://i.imgur.com/O0ldEa8.jpg
>>> 
>>> Any idea how to fix this?
>>> 
>>> -N
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