Re: ISO image

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "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