On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:18, eric huff wrote: > I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are > needed. I searched around, but too many hits... > Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD > and have it reformat the drive? > Shouldn't there be a way to have a "boot cd" that would then use info from > another cd to install? > The reason i ask is that i have seen people having issues burning the cd > properly from an ISO image... > thanks for any insight, > huff
ISO images are basically a "standard" for creating an image of an operating system's bootable disk, or other cd based media that requires extra filesystem information or whatnot. ISO images ARE quite easy and nice to work with - for instance - I can create ISO images of Mac OS System CD's from my workstation - as well as creating ISO images of any Windows OS System CD's - or what have you. Most of the time, you CAN create a boot disk which will then read the installation CD, but overall, it's a very nice convenience to have a bootable CD for your OS - whether it be OS/2, BeOS, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Macintosh - even Windows. -- Wed Mar 26 16:50:00 EST 2003 16:50:00 up 5 days, 3:37, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.08 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
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