Eric, While the ISO images do allow you to boot from the CD (assuming your computer allows it), the purpose of the ISO images is to keep from having to download all the individual files to some directory somewhere and then installing across a network or worse yet, from installing from the download site across the internet! Basically, the ISO images are direct copies of the CDs so you can duplicate the original. Once the CDs are burned, the ISO images are no longer needed.
Most of the problems with burning the ISO images were with the 9.0 images that used 700MB CDs (80 minute). Older CD burners couldn't write them. Mandrake 9.1 went back to the 650MB images because of this (who says they don't listen to users). Joeb On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:18:27 -0800 "eric huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > >
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