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@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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@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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