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LunchboX:


[ November 09, 2002: Message edited by: LunchboX ]

dbl221:
An ISO is an image file.
In Windows this is a valid file extension for an image.  Unix doesn't actually care about file extentions.

An image file in this context is a compressed data-structure that contains ALL the binary data from a CD.

Here is an example to help clarify.  I downloaded Mandrake 8.1 in ISO ......3 iso images, on efor each CD.
Then I burned each of the three Mandrake CS's on to a separate cd in Windows using a program called CDRWIN.

ISO is one image type, but Nero uses NRI and others.

check out this site for more info http://www.cdfreaks.com/

Norton Ghost is a popular image creation software that creates a copy of ALL the data on a partition or Hard drive and allows for the transfer of the image to CD of another partition or even over the LAN to another computer......Ghost uses "gho" as its image extension......but its the same as an ISO.

Good luck

voidmain:
One small correction. ISO images are *not* compressed images.  They are an exact image of the filesystem (iso9660 in the case of a CD).  In fact, in UNIX if you want to create an ISO from a CD you don't need any special software or hardware.  

e.g.
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/mycd1.iso

This will create an ISO image of the CD that can be written using either your windows software or "cdrecord" in UNIX (among other ways).

I'm sure you knew this but just like to keep things straight.

dbl221:
My mistake......I was thinking about the conpressed Linux image used to boot as set forth in /etc/lilo.conf.

  :eek:

LunchboX:
So basiclly if I want to install, for example, Red Hat, I download an ISO for every CD, then I burn each ISO onto a seperate CD, and I can install it?

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