Roxio Easy CD Creator will create discs from ISO images, but it has an achilles heel: the software is terribly fussy about the devices it will work with. It can be quickly and easily defeated by a new device leaving the owner annoyed and support people blaming the other company. Most Windows-based CD recording software seems the same way. Please note that sometimes "bundled" or "free" Windows CD-burning software may not be able to handle ISO images. For example I don't believe the CD recording software that comes built in to Windows XP (also made by Roxio!) can write iso's. It can't handle DVDs either. The software was considerably crippled. Don't be fooled into thinking this is "full service" software. When my wife wanted a faster CD-RW, I made the mistake of getting a Hi-Val 52x drive. The Roxio software simply couldn't be made to work with this drive despite calls to both Roxio and Hi-Val for support. Then I moved the Hi-Val drive to one of my Linux boxes, downloaded some ISO's to that box, (they happened to be for the Phoebe beta) and had no trouble burning them using cdrecord. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 23:07, Eric Burke wrote: > Bob, > > > You are right Eric but some on this list said the .iso was > > what I need. I burned them on a Sony using BHA Gold > > software and the 'data' option. The CD burner won't convert > > it to real files. Is there a way to do it (convert to > > useable files) on the hard disk? I can't understand why Red > > Hat can't use an ordinary ZIP type files for this stuff. > > They'll do anything to complicate it. TIA for any help. > > Bob > > I have no idea about BHA Gold software unfortunately. What you want to > look for is an option to create a cd from an image file. The .iso files > are images of a CD. If you can find an option to create a cd from an > image, then what will happen when you burn the cd is that all the files > will appear, as they will be extracted from the image and burned to the > cd. That is what you want. It sounds like you are using a windows > machine to burn them with, and an earlier suggestion by someone would be > to get the trial version of Nero. That will allow you to create the CD > from the image. Good luck. > > Regards, > > Eric Burke > >
