[ubuntu-nz] ubuntu-nz Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

[Bruce Kingsbury]

Buy good quality blanks and burn at about half your drive's full speed. All
official ubuntu cd images DO fit on a common 700mb cdr. I burn plenty of
them!

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Sent from my Ideos!
On 10/05/2011 6:43 AM, "Papabear aka Reinhold" <1bigteddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at zcat.geek.nz>
>
>> To: Advocacy and discussion about Ubuntu in New Zealand
>> <ubuntu-nz at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] 10.04 LTS disk
>> Message-ID: <BANLkTinPUqsh2wqb_gYhR0=C=f6bKHxcDA at mail.gmail.com>
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>>
>> I think I can spare a dozen. Will get them in the mail sometime soon, if
>> you
>> don't mind that they're 10.04 and not the later updates (10.04.2 I
think?)
>>
>> Also I am wondering how you're making a copy; My guess is that you're
>> copying hte files from the disk, then putting them into a new disk
folder.
>> That won't work, because it doesn't copy the disk's boot sector.
>>
>> the way to do it is (in ubuntu) put a disk in the drive and wait until
the
>> disk icon appears on the desktop. Right-click that icon and choose 'copy
>> this disk' .. you'll have options for copying the disk to an ISO file on
>> the
>> desktop, or to a new black CDR in the same drive. The resulting copy will
>> be
>> bit-for-bit identical to the original disk including a working boot
record.
>>
>> That will be great Bruce - many thanks in advance. Even better if we can
> give them away with the official cover.
>
> I have in the past used a Sony cd copy program that has the option of
making
> an EXCAT copy - worked fine before.
> So I thought i copy the official CD. One worked - three failed
> I then downloaded the ISO file and burned that via same program - have
done
> this very succesful in the past with several 64- bit versions.
> No luck either.
> I think - Chris is right - the CD's I bought yesterday are 700MB - and
that
> was the largest I could find. Chris recons the older CD's where 750 or 800
> MB and that gave you the space needed to burn ISO's. These days you need a
> DVD - and of course a DVD player.
> Only one of the 10 cpu boxes has a dvd as part of the hard-ware.
> Cest la vie
>
> I shall play with this issue later in the week / month if I have the time
-
> but in the meanwhile it is very nicely anticipated to receive your give
away
> cd's!! Thanks
>
> Reinhold
> from shaking captial of NZ
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