Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:36:31 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Linux on Lib70
>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:29:21 +0000 >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Linux on Lib70 > >Now I forget whether or not an ISO image is one big file or not. It is >isn't it? And CD burning software extracts the componets and burns them to >a CD... right? An ISO image is a single file which contains *all* the data on the CD, including the directory structures and TOC and whathaveyou. When you copy an ISO, it's copied bit-for-bit instead of treating it as a file, so when the CD is read, all the file structures appear as normal. > >>From what Neil and people have been saying, I take it that there's some >advantage to booting from the Mandrake installation CD over just having the >installation files on the HDD, and running the installation from there. > >Wonder what that may be. Booting from the installation CD is easiest - it's how they expect you to do it so everything is set up that way. Stuffing the CD onto a dos partition and running with a floppy is quickest because the HD is the fastest data store on the system. If you really want to get exotic, you can download an ISO image, mount it as a loopback device, which lets you see the contents, copy the contents to the HD, and run an installation from there. Never need to see a CD :) > >Matt > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >http://www.hotmail.com > > > > >************************************************************** >http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list >http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives >http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- >Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be >addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text >on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ >Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest >************************************************************** > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
