Re: Confusion

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Fri, 09 May 2014 09:54:04 -0500
"John W. Foster" <jfoster81747@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distribution and goes to

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> > Am I missing something obvious here?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Josh.

> 
> Well I'm gonna ask the obvious:
> Did you burn it as a ".iso file" or did you burn it as an image,
> which is what should have been done. Hope this helps, as Ive made
> than error before my self. john

Hi John,

Apparently, so have I, because I've thought that in the case of iso9660
(as opposed to UDF) formatted discs, "image and ".iso" were the same
thing.

The way I've always burned discs is either:

wodim dev=/dev/sg2 padsize=63s -dao -pad -v -eject myfile.iso

or

growisofs -Z=/dev/sr0=myfile.udf

These *appear* to have given me readable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays.

What's the difference between an image and an .iso?

Thanks,

SteveT

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