Boot cd

[Mike McCarty]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:39 +0000, Francisco España wrote:
> 
> 
>>I downloaded FC4-i386-disc1, 2, 3 and 4 I un zip them and then I burn
>>them in cd's. My bios is configurater for that, but with the cd on the
>>drive my fedora core does not boot to start the instalation, why is
>>that?  I have red hat 8.0 and when I put the cd on the drive it boot
>>with no problem and works fine.
> 
> 
> Why do people do this?  Faced with instructions that say how to burn a
> disc from ISOs, or having to find said instructions, they go looking for
> something else to unpack the image file.
> 
> An ISO is a direct image of what should be burnt onto the disc (just
> like stamping something out from a template).  Find the option in your
> CD burning software that lets you burn a disc from an ISO image.
> 
> If you unpack the contents of the ISO, you have the files, but not what

Well, use of language like this is part of what causes the confusion.
One does not "unpack" an ISO, because an ISO is not a "packed file".
It is a file system. One can mount it, but not "unpack" or "extract".
These words should properly only be used with .tar, .arc, .zip, .rar,
.lzh, .gz, etc. files. Not with .iso.

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Mike
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