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| Thread ID: 139349 | 2015-04-19 06:44:00 | Grrrr older computers | gary67 (56) | PC World Chat |
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| 1398864 | 2015-04-19 06:44:00 | Have an old P4 desktop here so thought I would install Lubuntu or similar on it. Lubuntu is 705Mb when downloaded the only rw Cd I could find here was 700mb so won't ISO won't fit and the machine only has a CD drive and I don't have an IDE DVD drive to use, and it won't boot off USB. Why would you make an ISO just marginally larger than a blank CD. Pretty dumb, oh well it might be back to Puppy Linux until I can get to the recycle center here and see if they have any IDE DVD drives |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1398865 | 2015-04-19 08:53:00 | There's other means of installing without writing the media to CD or USB but I would have opted for the minimal install disc and then built the packages with what I would need. Older systems need more attention and should be kept lean. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1398866 | 2015-04-19 09:23:00 | puppy linux on a cdrw is very cool indeed | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1398867 | 2015-04-19 09:32:00 | Have an old P4 desktop here so thought I would install Lubuntu or similar on it. Lubuntu is 705Mb when downloaded the only rw Cd I could find here was 700mb so won't ISO won't fit and the machine only has a CD drive and I don't have an IDE DVD drive to use, and it won't boot off USB. Why would you make an ISO just marginally larger than a blank CD. Pretty dumb, oh well it might be back to Puppy Linux until I can get to the recycle center here and see if they have any IDE DVD drives Have you actually tried burning the image? Most times you can overburn. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1398868 | 2015-04-19 10:00:00 | It failed each time | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1398869 | 2015-04-19 10:05:00 | I know what you mean. I have an old Toshiba Libretto (resource.toshiba-europe.com). It was a great little machine and still works, but not much works with it these days sadly. |
Krakka (17266) | ||
| 1398870 | 2015-04-19 23:42:00 | It failed each time Try burning using different software. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1398871 | 2015-04-20 00:03:00 | Not sure it's worth the effort but you can get CD's with larger capacities (or at least you used to be able to). 700Mb is the largest official standard but I used to buy disks up to 800Mb in capacity, you have to overburn them and the drive has to support it to write them as well but it does work. Back in the days before DVD burners became affordable I used to use them for Video CD's so I didn't have to split movies onto 2 disks, never achieved 800Mb on my setup but got 750 a few times. I did a search and turned up nothing, I guess the market for oversized CD's dried up with the release of DVD-R. I'll check my blank disk collection and see if I have any left over from the bad old days. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1398872 | 2015-04-20 02:48:00 | another vote for puppy linux | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1398873 | 2015-04-20 10:14:00 | Last two times I did an overburn and it worked fine, but depends on the drive and discs. You can still buy 800MB CD-Rs if you look hard enough. |
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