On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > This is very confusing to me. When I insert the stick that the Startup > Disk Creator wrote, Ubuntu tells me that it is a 4.0 GB file system of type > msdos. So I assumed that the .iso existed as a file (or folder) on the > stick, but the stick's file system was determined by the format. What > Startup Disk Creator did was put on the stuff to make it bootable (in > addition to copying the .iso file). > > Please correct my thinking.
Denis, My understanding is that live disks, bootable distributions, on optical media (cdrom or dvd) are in iso-9660 format. That may not always be true. I had not known of Startup Disk Creator before your message and know nothing about it. I use cdrecord (usually via xcdrecord, sometimes on the command line) to write .iso files to removable media as a read-only file system of type ISO-9660. If the tool you used does something different then others will need to answer your questions. On the other hand, if you can stick the stick in and re-boot the machine to the OS on the stick, what does the file system matter? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
