-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:05:42 -0500, Sherwin Dubren wrote: > I don't pretend to be a Unix guru, but I have used it to some extent > in > my 30 some years of professional programming. I had previously > installed > Red Hat 7.3 from a mirror site with no problems. Suddenly I see a new > file type called 'iso' for downloading from several different mirror > sites. The comments described them as file for 'Easy CD Creator'. - -snip- > The files are self extracting and No. This is the mistake. An ISO image is a _raw copy_ of a CD which contains an ISO 9660 file-system. When you read a CD digitally, you would get an ISO image. You should NOT extract the individual files from the image and burn them to disc. You should NOT burn the single .iso file to disc either. Your CD-writing utility should burn the unmodified ISO image data to disc, so that the CD contains the ISO file-system. > they called my Easy CD Creator, > version 5.x to burn them on my Plextor PX-w 2410A, the same drive I had > used to burn Linux 7.3. Unfortunately, the transferred file came out as > one big iso file. The the auto extraction, there was no opportunity to > change settings, but I assumed Easy CD would adapt properly. It all boils down to whether you know how to use your CD-writing software. If your software hides the option to burn ISO images, look out for a more user-friendly software. - -snip > I don't know why Red Hat switched to iso's (supposed to handle > Unix long names better), but the older method in 7.3 worked just > fine. Hmmm?! They have distributed ISO images for a much longer period by now, _much_ earlier than 7.3. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Hjvn0iMVcrivHFQRAqucAJ4+Z9Pdz7kGGheDCxUHr7I1oj9I4wCbBaQp nmF3tewNfFeDUWH6w75XQ98= =FMr/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
