Seeking Help

[Basil Chupin]

On 23/01/13 17:32, JD wrote:
>
> 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.

That is the size of the filesystem.squashfs file (in the CD) which I 
mentioned when it is expanded.

Here is the site - my ISP - where I get my files from:

http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/ubuntu/dists/

show me the DVD iso you are talking about.

And I would appreciate, please, giving me the URL where the Ubuntu 12.10 
(say) *DVD* can be downloaded from.

BC

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