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[Derek Broughton]

Colin Law wrote:

> 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?

Is there a need?  Either you think I'm lying to you, or you have to accept 
that of course you _can_ burn a CD iso image to a DVD.  They're bootable 
too.  "iso" being the International Standards Organization, it would be 
awkward if CD "iso" and DVD "iso" were somehow non-standard.
 
> 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.

And you would be able to tell which those were... how?  I only need to use 
one DVD every six or twelve months for an Ubuntu image.  And I still have 60 
or so cheap CDs to use up.  I'm not going to buy a bunch more CDs just to 
find one that will handle an Ubuntu image.
-- 
derek