Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:01:06AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Nano Nano wrote that the installation CD is not an image. I use the 7
> Debian CD's, the first two which I listed, of which any one is an
> installation CD (although I always install from #1). To me they appear
> to be images. So what does it mean when he says that the installation CD
> is not an image.
Dictionary.com has an entry for "image" that I guess is authoritative:
# Computer Science. An exact replica of the contents of a storage
device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as
a network server.
So according to this, a CD is an image, after all.
I don't think this is a very good definition, however.
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