can you use more than one CD to burn the image files?

[Xelaric]

One of the computers I intend to install Linux on only has a CD-ROM drive; and most distributions of Linux are in the GB range which obviously won't fit on a 700MB CD.
Is there a way to burn a CD Image using more than one CD? This computer currently has no OS on it.

[smolloy]

You could try with Ubuntu or one of its derivatives, since it comes on single CD.

As far as I know, there's no way to split an ISO amongst different discs, but I could be wrong.

[jayd512]

There are some distros that come in the form of multiple CD's, but they are actually built that way. Fedora, Slackware and openSuSE being among them. But if it's in the format of just one large file (like a DVD) then there's no feasible way to split the download.

[xombie207]

the iso your trying to burn is a dvd iso if it is bigger than 700 mb...and i would suggest using mandriva. You can download the mandriva one one disc installation from mandriva.com then go to "http://easyurpmi.zarb.org", install the media sources and then you can type urpmi "the name of the program you want" into a console while running as root and it will download the program and install it for...you can find just about anything you want or need like that...and be sure to type the address to easyurpmi just like i wrote it or it wont work

[peteh]

The full openSuse installation can be downloaded on separate cds or quite a few distros have a live cd.
If you do it that way you can always d/l additional programs from the repos.

[Freston]

It depends.

If you mount the Slackware-DVD.iso file you can take out unneeded packages and burn just what you need. It's quite straightforward, although I wouldn't count it as easy. If other distro's can do this, I honestly don't know.

You can also make a bootable USB with the install DVD writen to it (as files, not as iso).

Or you can install over the network. There's several approaches. Some distro's offer this as option during install (again Slackware comes to mind, but there are others as well). Debian even offers to install over the Internet.

But if you dig around a little, I think you'll find there are many distro's that fit on one CD, or who offer the option to burn multiple CD's rather than one single DVD.