Re: Debian Mini CD bootable?

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

ROBERT JACOBSEN <rjacobsen@prodigy.net> writes:

> I have downloaded the Debian minimal install iso image and
> written it to CD. The file on the CD is still in iso format (@185MB)

You make it sound like you wrote a CD which contains the ISO
file.  This is not what you should do.  Instead, the CD's image
should be the ISO file.  That is, when you mount the CD, many
files should be there, comprising the files within the ISO image,
not just one ISO file.
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