On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:33:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Here is the size limit and accompanying comments from the bin/publish-daily
> script.
>
> # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM says
> # 737280000; Media Motion say 736051200 for our
> # pressed CDs, so we'll use the smaller value.
> #SIZELIMIT=736051200
> # ... except apparently some software/media has
> # problems with anything over 700 (binary) MB. Argh.
> SIZELIMIT="$((700 * 1024 * 1024))"
> ;;
>
> This was added by Colin in revision 555. Colin, do you remember what had
> problems with the larger value?

I'm having trouble tracking down the exact details, since I didn't
change the script immediately after the report. I found a comment from
me to mdz in #ubuntu-devel on 2006-08-02, saying:

"apparently powerpc had problems burning for some people even in
dapper; it was below what I understood the real size limit to be, but
above 700MB, and I've had reports of some software/media (unsure
which) not liking that"

I believe LaMont may have been one of those with problems?

Lathiat made a second-hand report of problems with that 702MB image in
#ubuntu-devel on 2006-06-06, with nautilus-cd-burner on breezy (though
it could easily be the drive firmware or the media at fault).

TBH, since problems like this have apparently entirely gone away with
the lower limit, I'm inclined to be extremely cautious.

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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:33:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > # 737280000; Media Motion say 736051200 for our
> > # pressed CDs, so we'll use the smaller value.
> > #SIZELIMIT=736051200
> > # problems with anything over 700 (binary) MB. Argh.
> > SIZELIMIT="$((700 * 1024 * 1024))"
> Lathiat made a second-hand report of problems with that 702MB image in
> #ubuntu-devel on 2006-06-06, with nautilus-cd-burner on breezy

I found one reference (but to Gnomebaker, not nautilus-cd-burner):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomebaker/+bug/792

Here, the image was automatically being burnt in multi-session mode;
writing the extra metadata was preventing it from fitting (but of course, in
single-session "disc-at-once" mode it did fit).

[For somebody whom has a spare CDR], does doing:

dd bs=1 seek=$((80*60*75*2048-1)) count=1 if=/dev/zero of=jaunty-desktop-i386.iso

Followed by GUI clickiness, work?

-Paul

PS. Launchpad folks, https://bugs.launchpad.net/792 still doesn't work.
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Paul Sladen wrote:
> PS. Launchpad folks, https://bugs.launchpad.net/792 still doesn't work.

JFTR, https://launchpad.net/bugs/792 does.

Cheers,
Emilio

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On 1/24/09, Jerome Haltom <wasabi@larvalstage.net> wrote:
You are right. I was blind. But, I suppose, something is wrong if my Dad
failed to notice this, and so did I. And most of the replies to my

message.


On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 11:20 -0800, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Jerome Haltom <wasabi@larvalstage.net> wrote:
> > Sort of off topic, but I wanted to drop it out there.

> >
> > I was trying to get my dad to download and run the Live CD a few days
> > ago, and he could not figure out what he was supposed to do with the
> > ISO. Of course, XP has no way to burn an ISO. And there are no

> > instructions on the site suggesting how to accomplish it.
>
> When you use http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download to download the
> .iso it gives you a page with a "Need Help?" section that links to

> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto which has
> instructions for how to burn the .iso on Windows, OS X, Ubuntu,
> Kubuntu, and Xubuntu.

>
> Even on releases.ubuntu.com the page links to the BurningIsoHowto page
> as well as a USB image writing guide now for mobile stuff.
>
> -Jordan
>

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Actually, wouldn't it be easier if you used Wubi at http://wubi.sf.net?
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It's for first time and starter users...
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Plus, please don't top post, use "bottom post" or whatever it's called like what I'm doing...

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