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[Colin Law]

2009/9/13 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:
> Colin Law wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/12  <Cqcq88 at aol.com>:
>>> How can I download Ubuntu so that it fits on a 700MB CD?
>>> I downloaded it from the mirror-site at Univ. Tenn. Knoxville(utk) and it
>>> was 702.2KB.
>>> Thamks for any help.
>>
>> Assuming that you have downloaded the .iso file the file size is
>> irrelevant.  It is an image of a CD and will therefore fit.
>
> That's really not true.  I long since stopped burning Ubuntu isos to CD and
> use DVDs, because trying to cram that much onto cheap CDs never worked. CDs
> really _do_ have different sizes.

I understood that a CD iso image could not be burnt onto a DVD, though
I have never tried.  Can anyone else comment?

Even so I fail to see the logic of buying such cheap CDs that you have
to use DVDs instead.  I would have thought it better to buy usable
CDs.

Colin