Re: Problem installing Fedora 3 :(

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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:31:57 +0930

On Mon, 2 May 2005 17:59:01 -0400,
"Scott Speck" <speck82@comcast.net> posted:

> I'm having the same problem -- I have now "burned through" about thirty
> blank CD-R disks, trying every Nero and Roxio option that I can try, and,
> when I'm done, all I see is ONE BIG ISO file sitting on the CD-R. Should I
> see an entire directory tree of files on the CD-ROM?

Yes. Perhaps if people tried reading the manual for their software they'd
find out how to handle this. Or even the FAQs at the various Linux
websites.

For what it's worth, Nero has a menu option for burning a CD from an ISO
image file. You pick it, then select the image file to burn from, then go
through the ordinary steps of preparing to burn a disc.

If you had more than one hard drive, or a big enough drive that you're
installing to, you can even just dump the ISO files onto a drive and
install directly from them.

> Is the .iso file basically just a big zip file?

Yes and no. Yes, it's one large file acting as a container for lots of
individual files. No, it's not a compressed archive. It's an exact image
of the data that's going to be burnt onto a CD. That's why they're called
"ISO images". "ISO" being an abbreviation of ISO-9660, the specification
for how CDs are written, and "image" meaning a replica of the contents.

> It might have worked better if the Linux download was a huge ZIP file.
> Copy it to one's hard disk, unzip it, and then grab the entire resulting
> file tree and burn THAT onto the CD-R.

Yes, and no. There is some simplicity in that approach, and you can
install Linux over a network that way (including the internet). But you'd
also need to boot the system, and that's what you get with the ISO images
(bootable CD-ROMs, rather than unbootable discs of files). If you had to
make your own bootable CD-ROMs, you'd be throwing an even bigger spanner
into the works for configuring burning software. Some just don't have the
option to making bootable discs, but it's really only the crappest burning
software which doesn't have the most basic of requirements for CD burning
of being able to use a prepared ISO image to burn a CD.

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