Jeff said:
What is ISO when refering to a CD Burner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso9660
Think of it this way. A ZIP file can contain
a whole directory structure, a tree. But a ZIP is
compressed (that's why we use it, at least).
An ISO file is also a complete directory structure
and set of files, but without any compression.
It also has a place to store things that make booting
possible
When transferred to a CD or DVD, the media may be
"purely a data disc" or "bootable, like an OS disc".
The burning process is not exactly the same as
a "drag and drop" burn. You need a program that knows
how to transfer an ISO9660 properly, for it to work
as intended. If you look on a CD or DVD in Explorer,
and you see "blah.iso", you did it wrong.
Once an ISO is properly transferred to
optical media, you should be able to see the
contents of the directory tree and the files,
and not the original ISO file itself.
Paul