Same installation problem over and over again.

[Karl Larsen]

elmo wrote:
> A personal pet peeve.
>
> It seems that we're seeing the same thing over and over....someone has 
> downloaded the ISO and then burned (copied) it to a disk and the disk 
> doesn't work.
>
> What some instructions imply is that the ISO is the IMAGE and all you 
> have to do is copy the ISO to a disk and you'll have an IMAGE disk when 
> in fact what you have is a copy of a compressed version of the IMAGE in 
> a single file
>
> I speak from experience because I had the same problem when I started 
> working with ISO. I used a Nero CD burner to copy the ISO to a disk 
> because in several website instructions it said "copy the ISO to a CD" 
> and the result would be an IMAGE CD.
>
> It was only when I discovered by experimentation that the ISO is a 
> single file and by running it thru an extraction, you'd see several 
> files.  I then investigated my Nero and discovered a burner program that 
> is specific for creating IMAGE disks. What it does is simultaneously 
> extract and burn so the result is an IMAGE CD that has several files.  
> Which leads to a question.....if you first perform an extraction on the 
> ISO and then copy the resulting files to a disk, would that be an IMAGE 
> disk?
>
> Later, when I had a working UBUNTU, I discovered that it had the 
> burners, K3B and Brasero that had the ability to create an IMAGE disk.
>
> Instructions for creating an IMAGE CD should include a brief explanation 
> of the difference between an ISO and IMAGE and that a simple copy is not 
> the way to go.
>
>
> Comments?
>
> Elmo
>
>   
    Your making too much of the problem. I think there is a web page 
that the Ubuntu web page directs you to so you know what to do. Everyone 
has their own way to explain what happens.

    My view is today a CD-Rom blank costs about 10 cents. I tell the new 
person that you do not want to copy the iso to that CD-Rom. You want to 
install the iso file.

    If it works you will see several files on the CD-Rom. If you have 
just one file ending in .iso you failed and throw away that CD-Rom and 
try again.

Karl


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