How can I burn a 706MB image onto a 703MB CD?

Question

The Ubuntu image ubuntu-12.04.3-alternate-i386.iso is 706MB large.

I thought that little 3MB extra at the end is just the MB/MiB error - so the image should fit on the disk. But I was wrong.

My disk has 703MB. Is there a trick to burn the image regardless?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 07 '13 at 17:04

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Try this. It worked for me about 75% of the time. I used ImgBurn, and set the default Overburning Method to Truncate.

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answered Sep 07 '13 at 17:04

Mitch

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 07 '13 at 17:51

Options are to

burn it on a DVD; or
use the directions to create a bootable USB stick.

What is on the ISO is what they felt was the minimum needed for distributing an installer.

As Salem notes, this is a Q&A site, not a complaint department for Canonical. We all have to deal with the same issue. Options are provided to circumvent the CD size limitation. I have used both methods and they work.

How can I burn a 706MB image onto a 703MB CD?

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