The Windows 7 beta seems to know what to do with .iso files when you double-click them, so it's only a matter of time before this problem is solved automatically ;) In the meantime, adding hints about what to do with the .iso file you're downloading might be a good addition to the download pages. Martijn <div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/24 Jerome Haltom <<a href="mailto:wasabi@larvalstage.net">wasabi@larvalstage.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sort of off topic, but I wanted to drop it out there. I was trying to get my dad to download and run the Live CD a few days ago, and he could not figure out what he was supposed to do with the ISO. Of course, XP has no way to burn an ISO. And there are no instructions on the site suggesting how to accomplish it. He basically did as Paul said, dragged it to the CD burner software. Wonder if there would be a good way to distribute a CD burner application along with the .iso for Windows users. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 15:25 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Jani Monoses wrote: > > The current Ubuntu CD image size limit is 700 > > It is, as you note (80*60*75*2048 bytes), hopefully plus lead-in and > lead-out sector allowances and often with a tiny little bit extra (see > "overburning"). > > Where is the comparision being done, is it the number of bytes in the > resulting ISO (eg. inclusive of meta-data), or the number of bytes of the > packages, in the hope that the final result (metadata added) will fit? > > One advantage of producing an exactly size .iso might be that people would > not try to burn it by dragging it *as a file* (rather than image) onto a > CD-R; the software would complain earlier it wouldn't fit. > > If you're *really* tight of space, there's about half-a-megabyte (N files * > ~1024) of it spare at the end of unfilled sectors (less on the desktop CD). > >       -Paul > -- > Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three.  Somewhere, GB. > > -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>