Ubuntu ISO Images

[David Demland]

Craig,

Thank you, that worked.

David

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
White
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:59 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: RE: Ubuntu ISO Images


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:03 -0700, David Demland wrote:
> The burn shows that everything went well, however when I boot from the
> CD and start to load the installer I get a read error. This happens
> with all three CDs I have burned.
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try burning them at a slower speed - especially if the CD writer you are
using is a different drive than the CD drive you are trying to start up
with. Perhaps as slow as 4X.

You also need to use a 700MB CD (not a 650MB)

Craig
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>
> David
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>         [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On
>         Behalf Of Dazed_75
>         Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:12 AM
>         To: Main PLUG discussion list
>         Subject: Re: Ubuntu ISO Images
>
>
>         I noticed this as well David but I had not trouble burning
>         them (though it did surprise me).  It seems the oversize files
>         end up being in the ~690 MB range when written.  I do not know
>         why a .iso file would burn to a smaller size but it did for
>         me.  I did all three (Ubuntu and Kubuntu workstation and the
>         Ubuntu Server) and since then installed all three.  I
>         downloaded them to my desktop under Ubuntu 5.10 and just right
>         clicked each and selected "Write to disc".  Your email looks
>         like you did try burning them and were unsuccessful (as
>         opposed to simply assuming it would not work) so maybe it
>         would help if you described the method and environment that
>         failed.
>
>         On 8/9/06, David Demland <demland at cox.net> wrote:
>                 I have been downloading the new ISO images, from the
>                 Ubuntu site, using
>                 different servers and all of the images are 713 - 715
>                 MB. I can not get a
>                 good CD burn since these images are to large for the
>                 700 MB CD I have. I am
>                 not sure why the sizes are reporting over 700 MB from
>                 the download since the
>                 download sites show the ISO image size at 694 MB. The
>                 md5 check sums match
>                 so I believe that I have a good download. Does anyone
>                 know where else I
>                 might try to get an ISO image that will turn out to be
>                 the 694 MB so I can
>                 burn it to CD?
>
>                 Thank You,
>
>                 David Demland
>
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