what's the minimum size of the ubuntu 810 installation CD?

[David Fox]

2009/7/7 Marvin <blueq at 126.com>:

> My question is the minimum size of the installation CD (especailly 8.1.0
> version)?
>
> I met a problem that my USB disk is about 1GB, it's lovely, small and
> convient.

If you want to simply use the usb stick as an installation medium
besides the CD, it will fit, since the maximum size of any CD is about
700K (give or take a bit) and 1GB is bigger than what a CD can hold.



> And i want to install ubuntu live cd on it, so i can use my own computer
> enviroment

That will be problematic. 1GB is very tight for actually installing
ubuntu to the medium (using it to store files, boot from, etc.) The
other problem with usb sticks is that they degrade over time depending
on reads and writes to the device if you use it as a disk. It's fine
for file transfers and stuff, camera pictures, that sort of thing, but
I would recommend against using it as a system disk.


Some distributions work better, especially on smaller USB sticks.
Puppy linux is one, and I know some people that have a puppy install
on a smallish usb stick and it works fine for them. It's probably fine
for one-off testing but I wouldn't go that route for a system disk.



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