Email and Burn ISO

[waynev]

Is it possible to download an ISO on one computer then gmail the ISO to another computer so that the ISO can be burned to CD?

[ezas]

Sure. As long as the file size is not over the Gmail limit (which I think is pretty big)

Instead of email you might want to go to www.dropbox.com and set up a free 2GB account. Then grab a copy of Dropbox out of the repos. After setting it up 'dropbox' will be a folder in your home folder (you can specify another location if you want). Copy files to it and then set up Dropbox on your other machine and you will have access to the files. Its easy peasy and faster than adding an attachment to an email waiting for it to upload, waiting for it to get scanned and work its way through the email servers. I use dropbox for all my inter-machine file movement now.

I did exactly what you are asking. I downloaded some AVI files and then opened them on another machine that has a burner and made my DVDs

[waynev]

thanks ezas,

what you describe is exactly what I need to do, and the drop box sounds great. 

thanks again,

waynev

[ezas]

Just a newbie trying to help out where I can. Dropbox rocks. I looked at and tried a few others online storage sites, but on linux dropbox really seems the way to go. One site looked really good until I found out there was no linux client. I've been doing a lot of distro driving the last 6 weeks or so on three different boxes so Dropbox is really getting a good workout here. It's dead simple to use. Until I get set on a distro (like 2010 final) I have my music files and other files I always want access to on a 10GB Dropbox account.

[thorper]

Is it possible to download an ISO on one computer then gmail the ISO to another computer so that the ISO can be burned to CD?

If you have access to the second machine and will burn the ISO yourself wouldn't it be easier to use a memory stick? If you don't have access to the second machine or someone else will do the burn then why not just download the ISO on the second machine?

[menotu]

Also remember (unless your on a super-duper-lightning-fast-ISP the upload will take a fair bit of time regardless of whether you email it or "DropBox" it (Upload speeds are always far far slower than download speeds) My upload speeds are 20 times slower than my download speeds

Of the two options though I would definitely go with ezas's DropBox suggestion.

UNLESS of course you have access to t'other machine then I would go thorpers route.  

[scoundrel]

or you could just use skype

[menotu]

or you could just use skype

So he can tell them its on it way   

Sorry Scoundrel - couldn't resist 

[scoundrel]

or you could just use skype

So he can tell them its on it way   

Sorry Scoundrel - couldn't resist 

understood ..   but you'd be astounded of what skype can do ...and fast

[waynev]

Is it possible to download an ISO on one computer then gmail the ISO to another computer so that the ISO can be burned to CD?

If you have access to the second machine and will burn the ISO yourself wouldn't it be easier to use a memory stick? If you don't have access to the second machine or someone else will do the burn then why not just download the ISO on the second machine?

Memory stick is good, but I don't want to spend any money - I'm cheap.  The second machine is at work, very fast and hooked to dsl; but no burner, very limited access.  The machine with the burner is slow and wireless and connects "sometimes" to a hot spot; it's free and I'm still cheap. 

[YouCanToo]

Is it possible to download an ISO on one computer then gmail the ISO to another computer so that the ISO can be burned to CD?

If you have access to the second machine and will burn the ISO yourself wouldn't it be easier to use a memory stick? If you don't have access to the second machine or someone else will do the burn then why not just download the ISO on the second machine?

Memory stick is good, but I don't want to spend any money - I'm cheap.

So you are saying that you do not have a flash drive (memory stick

  The second machine is at work, very fast and hooked to dsl; but no burner, very limited access.  The machine with the burner is slow and wireless and connects "sometimes" to a hot spot; it's free and I'm still cheap. 

Than just burn the iso at the one and carry the disk to work with you to run on the other. That's cheap!

[dobbs]

Flash drives are dirt cheap....