Same installation problem over and over again.

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:30:40 -0400
elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> 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
> 
Well said. I wonder how this could be added to download page, where
users will see it when they download the files. 

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Charlie Kravetz 
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