Re: 4.7 GB Gutsy Gibbon DVD Image won't fit on my 4.4 GB DVD Rom

Thanks, Bill 'n' Mike. I started checking pages near the page that
talked about iso files in Roxio Creator XE, and eventually found what
you were talking about
(1) Data Disc
(2) Make Bootable
(3) Bootable Image on Hard Drive/Browse to the iso image
(4) Burn!
I ... think that worked. I can't boot from it. It says it lacks an
operating system. I can't browse it, although I get a DVD icon. I'm
still nowhere near installing Edubuntu, but I could believe I
successfully turned an iso image into a DVD uninterpretable by Windows
XP.

So ... I'll abandon this. Instlux having failed me, I'm back to making
my way through http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html

On Jul 22, 11:27 pm, Bill Waddington <william.wadding...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:32:12 -0000, ion <ionFree...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[top posting and quoted signature fixed - to keep the _other_ net pedants
from complaining]





On Jul 22, 7:47 pm, Bill Waddington <william.wadding...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:01:55 -0000, ion <ionFree...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Help! I'm new to burning DVDs in general, so there could be something
pretty obvious I'm missing here. I'm using Windows XP.
I have a Mad Dog MetaSTOR DVD burner, and Memorex 4.7 GB DVD+RW
rewriteable disks.
I downloaded Edubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, based on Ubuntu 7.10. As this page
shows, this is a 4.9 GB iso file.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/current/
I loaded my downloaded iso file into an emulated drive using Roxio's
Disk Image Loader.
I fired up Roxio Creator 8.2 XE and put a disk in the MegaSTOR. The
disk capacity is reported as 4.4 GB. I go to Data/Copy Disk, selected
my emulated drive as 'copy from' and the MegaSTOR as 'copy to'.
Of course, this fails. There's not enough space. Windows Explorer
reports the size of the emulated drive as 4.87 GB.
Am I dead in the water here? Should I just download the CD images and
burn those onto my DVDs? I find it a little suspicious that this very
popular operating system's DVD image is larger than my very standard
DVD. The image itself is only 3.62 GB, so I wonder if I can't squeeze
it onto my DVD somehow.

The above looks waaay to complicated to work :) How about just fire
up your Roxio burning software, select "burn from image" or equivalent,
and point it at the iso?

Maybe _I'm_ missing something obvious here...
Bill,
That's essentially what I'm doing. Roxio -- I think -- requires you
to mount an emulated volume to load the iso image into, then lets you
copy it. The point is that you get 4.9 GB of data whereas the DVD will
only hold 4.4 GB. I believe I have a very typical setup, in which case
this would be an unimaginable oversight. So, I was hoping someone
would tell me, "No, no. You have to slivel on the frimjam," and get
the Edubuntu data down to the size of my DVD.

I don't use Roxio so I will have to take your word for it :) A quick
look on their site @ media creator something shows a "burn from image"
option. This is how the other burn software works AFAIK.

One would normally mount an iso to be able to see the files contained
in the iso, but to burn it you _would not_ want to mount it. Mounting
would hide the file structure and any bootability features. To burn it
at that point you would have to create another iso from the mounted
iso - doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe take just one more look. There must be a "burn image" there
somewhere....

Bill
--
William D Waddington
william.wadding...@xxxxxxxxxx
"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch


.

Quantcast