Mounting DVD for installing programs in synaptic or add/remove programs and question about DVD contents and Burmese

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On 02/09/2009 07:35 AM, Dake K. Odzangba wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2009 14:36:35 Computer assistance Akatsi wrote:

> 
>> I also was wondering what the differences are between the DVD and CD? I
>> wanted to download the DVD so maybe it would contain more programs for
>> those people in Ghana, who dont have much internet access (when they do
>> have it, it's slooooow).
> 
> Hmm.... I live in Accra (Ghana) and my broadband connection is decent, not to 
> mention affordable - I'm paying for it out of my student allowance. Vodafone 
> has gone to some lengths to make fast broadband connections easily accessible 
> here so maybe you should get one for whoever it is you're trying to help. Zain 
> and iBurst have 5 megabit per second an 7.2 megabit per second packages 
> available although they should cost more than Vodafone's.
> 
> AFAIK, the DVD iso is basically the CD iso with additional language support so 
> unless you want to use some exotic language, the CD image will do.

It is much more than that. Differences are here:

For DVD:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/release/
<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/release/ubuntu-8.10-dvd-i386.list>

For CD:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.10/
<http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.10/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.list>

You can run meld diff on the two list files to see the differences.

$ sudo apt-get install meld

You'll then find it in the Applications|Programming menu.