Seeking Help

[JD]

On 01/22/2013 11:13 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 23/01/13 01:34, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 22 January 2013 14:04, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> As far as I am aware, the only REAL and painless way to install 
>>> Ubuntu from
>>> a DVD is to buy the DVD from a place such as On-Disk.com (Ric! Where 
>>> are
>>> you?! Help out here please :-D ) which contains ALL the files on the 
>>> DVD to
>>> install Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> The DVD you burn from the iso of Ubuntu does not contain all the 
>>> files, and
>>> these files have to be downloaded from the Ubuntu site during 
>>> installation.
>> Sorry Basil but that is rubbish.  The iso image for the desktop
>> install includes the vast majority of the files needed for install.  I
>> installed on a machine from the iso a few days ago and with an
>> internet connection of only 1.5Mbps it only spent about 20 mins, if I
>> remember correctly, downloading stuff after doing the file copying
>> from the image (I was actually installing from USB stick rather than
>> DVD but the image is the same).
>
> Actually talking about a DVD as mentioned by the OP or even yourself 
> is a misnomer because Ubuntu 12.10 iso is only 790,646,263 bytes big 
> and, of course, won't fit onto a normal CD and has to be, therefore, 
> burned onto a 4.7GB DVD. Which is what I had to do and which is what I 
> told someone a while ago when he said that he couldn't burn the iso to 
> a CD.
# ls -l *quantal*
-rw-r--r-- 1 jd  jd    2860806144 May 20  2012 quantal-dvd-i386.iso
As you know quantal is 12.10.