[Wylug-discuss] Local source for ubuntu wanted

[Phil Foxton]

Hi Barrie,

If it is any help I live in Brighouse but work in central Manc so could
get the CD's to you if we can meet somewhere on my route....

Phil

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:27 +0000, Barrie Stott wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:16:31PM +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:09:31PM +0000, Barrie Stott wrote:
> > > Never having tried it before, I visited www.ubuntulinux.org to find
> > > that ubuntu is available but probably takes several weeks to arrive.
> > > Is there somwehere more local where I can get hold of it more quickly
> > > on CD/DVD?
> > 
> > Am I right in presuming that you can't burn a cd/dvd from an iso image
> > like these?
> > 
> >   http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/
> >   
> >   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/release/
> 
> You are correct on two counts. I've never been able to burn a CD
> properly even though I have a writer; audio CD's I write have unwanted
> noise every second and my machine cannot find data CD's I've written.
> Also, even if I could write CD's, it would take too long with dialup.
> 
> > I'll be burning copies of the x86 (intel) version CD and DVD myself
> > sometime over the next week.
> > 
> > I'd be happy to bring along one spare of each to the meeting on 14th
> > Nov.
> 
> That would be excellent BUT I have a meeting in Preston on the 14th so
> I'd not be able to be at the meeting. I'm happy to come somewhere at a
> different time and if that is not convenient I'm still grateful for
> the offer.
> 
> Barrie.
> 
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