Re: ISO image
"John" == John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> writes:
John> At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote:
>> A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's a
>> lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that defines
>> what it is...what it does..... Can someone point me to
>> somewhere that discusses it?
>>
John> It's a single file which is an image of the cd you intend to
John> burn.
John> once you have an iso, cd burning becomes very simple and
John> fast.
And, if your kernel supports loopback (Debian's prebuilt kernels do)
you can even mount the ISO file and look inside it.
mount -t iso9660 -o loop some-iso-image-file /mnt
Cheers!
Shyamal
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