Re: Same installation problem over and over again.

Karl Larsen wrote:
elmo wrote:

A personal pet peeve.

It seems that we're seeing the same thing over and over....someone has
downloaded the ISO and then burned (copied) it to a disk and the disk
doesn't work.

What some instructions imply is that the ISO is the IMAGE and all you
have to do is copy the ISO to a disk and you'll have an IMAGE disk when
in fact what you have is a copy of a compressed version of the IMAGE in
a single file

I speak from experience because I had the same problem when I started
working with ISO. I used a Nero CD burner to copy the ISO to a disk
because in several website instructions it said "copy the ISO to a CD"
and the result would be an IMAGE CD.

It was only when I discovered by experimentation that the ISO is a
single file and by running it thru an extraction, you'd see several
files. I then investigated my Nero and discovered a burner program that
is specific for creating IMAGE disks. What it does is simultaneously
extract and burn so the result is an IMAGE CD that has several files.
Which leads to a question.....if you first perform an extraction on the
ISO and then copy the resulting files to a disk, would that be an IMAGE
disk?

Later, when I had a working UBUNTU, I discovered that it had the
burners, K3B and Brasero that had the ability to create an IMAGE disk.

Instructions for creating an IMAGE CD should include a brief explanation
of the difference between an ISO and IMAGE and that a simple copy is not
the way to go.


Comments?

Elmo



Your making too much of the problem. I think there is a web page
that the Ubuntu web page directs you to so you know what to do. Everyone
has their own way to explain what happens.

My view is today a CD-Rom blank costs about 10 cents. I tell the new
person that you do not want to copy the iso to that CD-Rom. You want to
install the iso file.

If it works you will see several files on the CD-Rom. If you have
just one file ending in .iso you failed and throw away that CD-Rom and
try again.

Karl



I think we're having a semantics problem here. I disagree with your
statement " You want to install the ISO file". You'll have to throw
away a lot of disks.

I think it is more correct to say "You want to install the IMAGE file"
There's a vast difference between ISO and IMAGE. If they were the same,
why do we
bother with creating an IMAGE?

In fact, if you read the wording of the name of any proper installing
process, the goal is to
burn IMAGE to disk.

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