9.10 ppc iso image is too big to burn

[ubuntpan]

The released iso CD image of Ubuntu 9.10 is too large to be burned onto
a standard CDROM. I notice that in the daily builds this is marked as a
bug, but since 9.10 is supposed to be the currently usable release
version, I had hoped a burnable iso image would be available.

From the listing athttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/ports/releases/9.10/release/
you can see that the file size for ubuntu-9.10-desktop-powerpc.iso
is 705MB, which will not fit onto a standard CD.

Will a burnable CD image be forthcoming for PPC/Mac users who do
not have DVD or Flash drives with the capacity for the released image???

[guidop]

MinimalCD Installer images are available here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

[vodsonic]

I just ran into the same problem. Two hours to download the image over bittorrent, only to be told by my burning software that my blank CD isn't big enough.

I'm just trying this as an experiment on an old PowerBook with a bad hard drive. Burning to a DVD or trying to make a bootable flash drive would be mega-overkill, considering that I just want to have a quick look at the specs and see if the thing is worth salvaging.

Next, to download the Jaunty PPC .iso at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/jaunty/release/

[vodsonic]

...and, nobody is seeding the torrent.

[tiresia]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1335735

[vodsonic]

Thanks - the tutorial worked but the disc I created apparently isn't bootable. I posted more details in that thread.

Since there were no seeders for the 9.04 PPC torrent, I tried downloading it directly yesterday, which failed. Trying again now with a download manager.

[rumel1988]

same problem with Xubuntu 10.04 beta2 :@
but ubuntu team says its a bug. is that fix on final release?

[conal]

Overburning worked for me but you can also buy writable CD's with extra capacity.

[DougieFresh4U]

From a Windows machine I used 'InfraRecorder' and selected 'allow overburning' and 9.10 & 10.04 both worked great.

[conal]

Thanks DougieFresh4U. Also (if you have already have a working installation of linux somewhere), then Recent versions of Brasero and Gnomebaker allow overburning.

[shawnhcorey]

Most disk burners allow over-burning. The problem is the discs themselves. You have to get special over-sized ones.

[conal]

You can sometimes pull it off with a normal size disk, (if it's just over size) - I managed it with the Ubuntu 9.10 ppc live ISO. I think some of the other 9.10 ISOs' are even bigger though.

[shawnhcorey]

I tried that with 9.04. It got through 95% of the install and crapped out. Really irritating since it took almost an hour to just discovered I was overly optimistic. :( Get the right-sized disk; strongly recommended.