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Burning a Gutsy ISO image

Asked by Riverrun

I'm waiting impatiently for the GG live CD to arrive but in the meantime I'm contemplating downloading GG and burning it to CD. My question is this: if I download the Gutsy ISO, should I use an ISO burner to create a CD?

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#1

I'd better add that I want to download/burn the GGibbon data in a Windows XP environment as I don't feel confident enough as yet to try it in Feisty. I've only been using Linux for a matter of weeks and I'm still learning the basics. Mind you, I hardly boot into Windows at all these days, I'm relishing the freedom that Feisty brings. I've made a good start with Ubuntu, it's a keeper and Linux will be a major part of my computing life from now on.

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Clóvis Fabrício (nosklo) said : 		#2

Burning the iso in ubuntu feisty is *a lot easier* than in windows.
You just right-click the iso file and choose "burn to CD"

But if you need to use another OS you will find instructions for many in the page below:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

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Best Kristopher Ives (nullmind) said : 		#3

Hi,
You have a lot of options when it comes to burning an CD image (like an ISO). If you're familiar with burning disk images you can use Gnomebaker to burn the image and it will give you some control over the label of the CD and other things.

But, if you just want to burn the ISO exactly like it is you can right click the file (assuming you're in Ubuntu, this works in Fiesty) and select "Write CD" or "Copy CD".

It's interesting that you doubt Ubuntu with the burning of your CDs (or think that it will be complex), because, I've made less mistakes burning CD and DVDs in Ubuntu compared to the endless coasters I was fabricating in Windows because of driver issues and crashes.

Cheers,
Kristopher Ives

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#4

Thanks Kristopher Ives, that solved my question.

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#5

Thanks, Clovis. I'm going to do it now.

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#6

Discovered that I didn't have a CD burner in FF. Just installed Gnomebaker so I'm ready to go.

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Clóvis Fabrício (nosklo) said : 		#7

If you use the solution I suggested you dont need GnomeBaker.
Right click iso and choose "Burn" is built in on ubuntu, you don't need additional software to do that.

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#8

Guys, I got it and had my supper since i posted last. I can't believe that was so easy! I guess i'm still thinking in windoze mode.

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#9

Well, I'm up and running and GG is safely tucked away on my hard drive (50 Gb). Not without trouble though. The installation hung at 82%; I waited an hour an a half. I'd previously disconnected from the Net thinking that it would be safer but the cable was still in it's socket. So I unplugged and prepared to abort the installation, phew! Soon as I did that, Gutsy started again and finished in record time. Seems it had been searching for updates on a dead Internet connection. Lol.

Well, I rebooted and found that Add/Remove wasn't working and neither was the Update Manager. Guys, I didn't panic instead I searched for someone with the same experience, wasn't difficult and whether by chance or not, I found the very scripts I needed in a matter of seconds. Beginners luck! Everything is hunky-dory, all is working normally, all is well including a very much reduced XP partition.

I had been using a Wubi installation and that's gone now. Can't believe the difference in speed. Linux in it's own partition is the way to go. Clovis, I didn't need GnomeBaker as it turned out. The burn went really well. Guys, thanks for the support. I wanted to do this ever since my first taste of Ubuntu and that bit of encouragement really helped.

Cheers all