LQ Ubuntu ISO too large for cd
 

Down loaded the Ubuntu 10.4 ISO for this site when download was complete, got a screen telling me to insert a writable cd which I did. It went through a Format process and then asked me to drag the files to that directory. When I tried to do that I got a message saying that I was 138mb short of space. the Iso was 704mb and the cd had formatted to something over 500mb. the disk is a CD-RW rewritable cd.
any thoughts appreciated

You say you got the instruction to insert a CD just after you finished downloading the ISO file? :scratch:

You don't specify what program you're using to burn the image file. Are you using Nero? ImgBurn? Something else? Are you burning the ISO as an image, not as a file? You need to select the option to burn the ISO as an image. There should be a way to do this in whatever software you're using.

Try a different CD, maybe a non-RW one.

A clean CD should have enough capacity.

I have the image from Ubuntu site and the size comes out to be 699.4MB or 733419520 bytes. And it fit into clean non RW cd with no issues what-so-ever.

Yea tried a cdr and it worked fine, Thanks

Glad to see you got it to burn correctly. :)

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