ISO

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Jeff said:
What is ISO when refering to a CD Burner
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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
 
Jeff T <[email protected]> said:
What is ISO when refering to a CD Burner
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Paul's explanation is more detailed! But if you mean what is an .iso
file, it is an image of a CD - in other words, all the files,
directories, etc. (even booting information), combined - though, as Paul
says, not compressed - into one file. Again, as Paul says, you need to
select the "burn ISO" option in your CD burning software (all such
softwares I've used have such an option), and as he says if you look at
the CD afterwards and just see the .iso file, you've done it wrong.
 
Ardent said:
+1
Been using it for years. Multisession works good too - I have done
upto 16 sessions on a single CD with no problems
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I like it because after Burning a ISO
you can use Multisession to add
needed File and software to the CD/DVD
with no problems at all..

Thank you for the add info Ardent.......
 
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