Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Lee Baldwin did write: > Does anyone know why the files are .iso when you download them??
The .iso extension refers to ISO 9660, the international standard for the filesystem on a CD-ROM. This file contains such a filesystem; it's (more or less) what you would get if you did a dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso (although I've actually had problems doing the above). This file by itself isn't going to do you much good; you'll need to burn it to a CD or mount it using the loopback device. See the CD Writing HOWTO at <http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/> for more details on either operation.) Richard
