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I only havce a CD drive but the distro I want is only available as a DVD iso

Asked by andrewj100

Currently I'm using Ubuntu on my laptop, this has a DVD reader and CD R/W.
I have an old PC, 1gb memory 2.3ghz proc, it has an IDE HD and IDE CD.
What I want to do is install Ubuntu studio onto this machine but this is only available as a DVD iso so I can't burn a DVD to disk and if I could I would be unable to use it on the PC as it's only got a CD drive.

I have got the DVD iso copied onto a USB disk (unfortunately it wont boot off USB).
I have booted the PC using an 8.04 CD and can see the iso on the USB disk.

So is there a way to....
1, Split a DVD iso onto 2 CD iso's (I doubt it).
2, Boot of an Ubuntu CD but get it do install a different version from a USB disk?

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Claudio Arseni (claudio.arseni) said : 		#1

Hi andrewj100,

you don't have to copy the DVD iso into usb disk, you have to create a bootable usb disk using "usb creator", you can find it in

System>Administartion

Hope this help,
Regards
Claudio Arseni

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pablitofuerte (pablitofuerte) said : 		#2

If you have your 8.04 installed already, you can also install the "ubuntustudio-desktop" package (that will install the rest of the ubuntu studio packages) with Synaptic.
The same as with kubuntu-desktop (but search ubuntustudio-desktop instead):
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

+1 or ubuntustudio-desktop package

All the buntus are the same, just the default apps are different.

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andrewj100 (andrewj100) said : 		#4

Claudio Arseni - The bios itself will not support booting of USB, I followed this route as far as using UNetbootin but it wasn't having any of it, it's pretty old!

I wasn't sure if installing the ubuntustudio desktop would make the changes for the low latency kernel which was the main reason I wanted to install from the iso rather than add things in later.

I have managed to get round the problem now though.
Borrow a USB DVD writer from work, the one I used to get a copy of Ubuntustudio in the first place.
Open up the box.
Disconnect the IDE DVD drive from the IDE/USB card.
Plug the IDE DVD drive into the IDE cable my CD drive was on.

As well as getting Ubuntstudio on it has proved the bios can boot of an IDE DVD drive so my next stop will be ebay!