KUBUNTU CD download
Lord Sauron
lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 00:41:37 UTC 2006
On 7/3/06, David A' Rebel <obsidion at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 10:26, William Pierce wrote:
> > Hello Group
> >
> > I downloaded the Kubuntu CD for i386 a few days ago.
>
> How big is the iso ?
Try downloading it and find out.
> > When I tried to burn it to a CD it showed over 4GB in size instead of
> > the usual 650+MB. Upon looking at the various folders I noticed to
> > large files of 650MB+. It looks like either the file was mislabled of
> > someone pt an extra file in the "casper" folder.
>
> How did you try to burn it to cd ie did you burn image ?
It comes as an ISO image. That image is a literal snapshot of a
physical CD, generated by Linux for installation. You use a CD
burning program to write it to a blank physical CD.
> > Has anyone else encountered this? And wher do I find the correct
> > Kubuntu CD file to download?
>
> It does sound like you downloaded a dvd iso instead though.
Yes, my first thought was that you accidentally downloaded the DVD.
If you have a DVD burner, the DVD is perfectly fine, so long as the
machine you want to install on has a DVD reader (I burnt a Debian DVD,
then realized my server doesn't have a DVD reader : (
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