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alex wrote:
> ISO' something resembling a zipped file in MS Windows.but we don't use
> the word 'zipped' in Linux., we call it an 'image' to apply a confusion
> factor.
I never seen anyone call a ISO image file a "zip file" in the MS Windows
world
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:01:41AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Nano Nano wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > A downloaded ISO is an image.
> > The installation CD is not an image
>
> ??
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-2
Nano Nano wrote:
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
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:09:23PM -0500, alex wrote:
> Nano Nano wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >A downloaded ISO is an image.
> >The installation CD is not an image
> >The installation CD is a duplicate of the contents of the image.
> >
> >
> H
Travis Crump wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
alex wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
_-
??
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
de
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
The installation CD is a duplicate of the contents of the image.
How simple it would be to say "The installation CD is a duplicate of
the extracted c
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
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
alex wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
_-
??
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
debian-30r1-i386-binary-2.
alex wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
_-
??
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
debian-30r1-i386-binary-2.iso
these are not ima
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
_-
??
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
debian-30r1-i386-binary-2.iso
these are not images?
Could yo
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:46:47 -0500, alex wrote:
If you want to understand, why not try yourself with something faster (and
cheaper) ? Take any bootable floppy, insert it, and issue a
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=demo.img
[if=input file; of=output file]
Probably, demo.img will be
1474560 Bytes, whatever
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
??
debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
debian-30r1-i386-binary-2.iso
these are not images?
Hugo.
The installation CD is a duplicate of the contents of the image
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
The installation CD is a duplicate of the contents of the image.
There used to be CD images which were not ISOs, but they are not current
anymore.
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I'm having a semantics problem when it comes to discussions of ISO and
image files.
In some documentations, ISO's are sometimes called image files and
sometimes image files are called ISO files or so it seems to me.
I've wasted a lot of time looking at FAQs, dozens of websites including
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