[SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Dimitri Koussa]

Hi everyone,

In a couple of weeks I'll be traveling to a country on the other side of the
digital divide where I plan on setting up an Ubuntu machine for a non techie.
And bandwidth is very expensive over there so I wanted the DVD install edition.

The Ubuntu website links to Amazon but that says shipping is only available in 
the
US. And I'm not sure they can ship within two weeks.

Does anyone know where I can obtain an Ubuntu install DVD?

Cheers
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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Jeff Waugh]

> Does anyone know where I can obtain an Ubuntu install DVD?

Your best bet is to download and burn one (or find someone to download and
burn one for you).

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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Dimitri Koussa]

On 22:09 Mon 04 Dec 06, Jeff Waugh spake thusly:
> 
> 
> > Does anyone know where I can obtain an Ubuntu install DVD?
> 
> Your best bet is to download and burn one (or find someone to download and
> burn one for you).

I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. I have to pay ~5.5 cents/Mb here at USyd
so that's $175 for the DVD...I guess I'll start emailing my friends asking if
they've got some bandwidth they can spare.

Unless...does anyone have the DVD? I will pay for or replace the DVD and can go
pick it up (if close to city).

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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:28:51PM +1100, Dimitri Koussa wrote:
> I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. I have to pay ~5.5 cents/Mb here at 
> USyd
> so that's $175 for the DVD...I guess I'll start emailing my friends asking if
> they've got some bandwidth they can spare.

That's astonishing, surely usyd have a mirror?

> Unless...does anyone have the DVD? I will pay for or replace the DVD and can 
> go
> pick it up (if close to city).

There's got to be hundreds of Ubuntu users at usyd surely.

Matt
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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Dimitri Koussa]

On 23:14 Mon 04 Dec 06, Matthew Hannigan spake thusly:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:28:51PM +1100, Dimitri Koussa wrote:
> > I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. I have to pay ~5.5 cents/Mb here at 
> > USyd
> > so that's $175 for the DVD...I guess I'll start emailing my friends asking 
> > if
> > they've got some bandwidth they can spare.
> 
> That's astonishing, surely usyd have a mirror?

There have been some mirrors and proxies set up by different departments and
societies at some point in time. Nothing (I know of at least) that lasted and
certainly nothing organised by the university as a whole. Which would have been
useful.

> > Unless...does anyone have the DVD? I will pay for or replace the DVD and 
> > can go
> > pick it up (if close to city).
> 
> There's got to be hundreds of Ubuntu users at usyd surely.

There are a few but most of the ones that I know just install using the regular 
CD
versions.
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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Carlo Sogono]

Dimitri Koussa wrote:

There have been some mirrors and proxies set up by different departments and
societies at some point in time. Nothing (I know of at least) that lasted and
certainly nothing organised by the university as a whole. Which would have been
useful.


In the spirit of Christmas I'll burn you a copy for free. I have a 
spindle of blank DVDs that I haven't used in 6 months, and downloads 
from my ISP's mirror (Internode) do not count towards my quota. Plus I"m 
on a 1.5Mbps connection so it won't take long. In addition to the Ubuntu 
DVDs browse through mirror.internode.on.net and tell me what else you 
want. Max 3 DVDs worth.


Cheers,
Carlo
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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Grant Parnell - slug]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Dimitri Koussa wrote:


On 22:09 Mon 04 Dec 06, Jeff Waugh spake thusly:




Does anyone know where I can obtain an Ubuntu install DVD?


Your best bet is to download and burn one (or find someone to download and
burn one for you).


I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. I have to pay ~5.5 cents/Mb here at USyd
so that's $175 for the DVD...I guess I'll start emailing my friends asking if
they've got some bandwidth they can spare.

Unless...does anyone have the DVD? I will pay for or replace the DVD and can go
pick it up (if close to city).


As far as I knew there was only the CD version? We're selling it for 
$16.00 and you can pick it up, because of our sale we're opening Thursday 
nights till 7pm and Sat 10-12. Unit B6, 27-29 Fariola St, Silverwater. 
Jump on a 525 bus from Strathfield or Parramatta.


I've got Ubuntu desktop/server for x86, x86-64, PPC and just today I've 
collected Xubuntu mainly because I wanted it for CompuberBank - more on 
that later.


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Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:54 +1100, Grant Parnell - slug wrote:

> As far as I knew there was only the CD version? We're selling it for 
> $16.00 and you can pick it up, because of our sale we're opening Thursday 
> nights till 7pm and Sat 10-12. Unit B6, 27-29 Fariola St, Silverwater. 
> Jump on a 525 bus from Strathfield or Parramatta.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/release/

DVD's galore.

-Rob


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