Re: Howcan I =====

Derek Broughton wrote:
Colin Law wrote:

2009/9/13 Derek Broughton <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Colin Law wrote:

2009/9/12 <Cqcq88@xxxxxxx>:
How can I download Ubuntu so that it fits on a 700MB CD?
I downloaded it from the mirror-site at Univ. Tenn. Knoxville(utk) and
it was 702.2KB.
Thamks for any help.
Assuming that you have downloaded the .iso file the file size is
irrelevant. It is an image of a CD and will therefore fit.
That's really not true. I long since stopped burning Ubuntu isos to CD
and use DVDs, because trying to cram that much onto cheap CDs never
worked. CDs really _do_ have different sizes.
I understood that a CD iso image could not be burnt onto a DVD, though
I have never tried. Can anyone else comment?

Is there a need? Either you think I'm lying to you, or you have to accept
that of course you _can_ burn a CD iso image to a DVD. They're bootable
too. "iso" being the International Standards Organization, it would be
awkward if CD "iso" and DVD "iso" were somehow non-standard.

Even so I fail to see the logic of buying such cheap CDs that you have
to use DVDs instead. I would have thought it better to buy usable
CDs.

And you would be able to tell which those were... how? I only need to use
one DVD every six or twelve months for an Ubuntu image. And I still have 60
or so cheap CDs to use up. I'm not going to buy a bunch more CDs just to
find one that will handle an Ubuntu image.

That is why I pay 5 cents each for my CD-R. They assure me they are at
least 700 MB of usable space. About 4 or 5 years ago there were some
CD-R who only assured 680 MB, and sometimes you had get lucky to get one
that was big enough.


73 Karl


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