On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:51 pm, Joeb wrote: > Eric, it is NOT the "ISO" image that allows booting, it is that included in the ISO is a boot from floppy device. ISO just stands for the International Standards Organization and 9660 is implied as the particular standard, and has NOTHING to do with booting.
> > 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 -- Linux counter number 167806
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