Iluvpenguins
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What is an ISO and how do i use it?
ISO files?
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ahajv4life
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Download this: http://www.download.com/Alcohol-120-/3000-2646_4-10550202.html?tag=lst-0-1
When it's been installed, "Mount" the ISO. Goto "My Computer", and there should be a new drive there with whatever your ISO is.
An Iso is basically and Image of a CD, Game or Movie.
When it's been installed, "Mount" the ISO. Goto "My Computer", and there should be a new drive there with whatever your ISO is.
An Iso is basically and Image of a CD, Game or Movie.
computerhakk
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It is an image file that most likely came from a disk.
To use it, you can either extract all the contents from it with a program such as ISObuster, or mount it and just burn it onto a disc, depending on the size, it could be on a CD or DVD.
An iso image is the main means of downloading Linux distributions for write to disk followed by the installation onto your system. Think of a hard drive with Windows being packed into a zip file and opened on another drive later or burned to a cd or dvd where it runs when you boot from the removable disk(cd/dvd).
Large Linux distros will take 4 or 5 cd-rs if not 1 or 2 dvd-rs each with a separate iso burned to those. Recovery disks for prebuilt systems that are lost are often replaced by downloading the iso images for creating the needed disks to reinstall the recovery partition on the hard drive. I am presently trying to install Zenwalker a new Linux distro from an iso image. If ISOBuster is a freeware that will help.
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Large Linux distros will take 4 or 5 cd-rs if not 1 or 2 dvd-rs each with a separate iso burned to those. Recovery disks for prebuilt systems that are lost are often replaced by downloading the iso images for creating the needed disks to reinstall the recovery partition on the hard drive. I am presently trying to install Zenwalker a new Linux distro from an iso image. If ISOBuster is a freeware that will help.
Guess what? they redirected the free download link to http://www.download.com/3001-2248_4-10559872.html?idl=n
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At present I'm working with several iso images burned to disk to get a free Linux distro installed from an iso image burned to a cd-r. The full definition of just what is an iso9660 type image is described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image as follows:
ISO image
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ISO imageFile extension:.isoType of format:Disk imageAn ISO image (.iso) is an informal term for a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. More loosely, it refers to any optical disk image, even a UDF image.
As is typical for disk images, in addition to the data files that are contained in the ISO image, it also contains all the filesystem metadata (boot code, structures, and attributes). All of this information is contained in a single file. These properties make it an attractive alternative to physical media for the distribution of software that requires this additional information as it is simple to retrieve over the Internet.
Some of the common uses include the distribution of operating systems, such as Linux or BSD systems, and LiveCDs.
Most CD/DVD authoring utilities can deal with ISO images: Producing them either by copying the data from existing media or generating new ones from existing files, or using them to create a copy on physical media.
Most operating systems (including Mac OS, BSD, Linux, and Windows, with third-party tools) allow these images to be mounted as if they were physical disks, making them somewhat useful as a universal archive format.
Console emulators, such as ePSXe, and many other emulators that read from CD/DVD, are able to run ISO/BIN (and other similar formats) instead of running directly from the CD drive. Better performance is achieved by running an ISO since there is no waiting for the drive to be ready and the hard drive I/O speed is many times faster than the CD/DVD drive.
A copy of CD contents, stored as an .iso file, is made this way: the ripper searches for the sectors of the CD that have been used, say 251,000 for instance (there are 330,000 sectors on a 74 min CD and 360,000 sectors on an 80 min CD). Each sector is copied to the .ISO file, one by one. For CDs each sector is 2048 bytes, the .ISO file should then be of size 251,000 x 2048 = 514,408,000 bytes.
Nero .NRG files are .ISO files plus a small file header.
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ISO image
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
ISO imageFile extension:.isoType of format:Disk imageAn ISO image (.iso) is an informal term for a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. More loosely, it refers to any optical disk image, even a UDF image.
As is typical for disk images, in addition to the data files that are contained in the ISO image, it also contains all the filesystem metadata (boot code, structures, and attributes). All of this information is contained in a single file. These properties make it an attractive alternative to physical media for the distribution of software that requires this additional information as it is simple to retrieve over the Internet.
Some of the common uses include the distribution of operating systems, such as Linux or BSD systems, and LiveCDs.
Most CD/DVD authoring utilities can deal with ISO images: Producing them either by copying the data from existing media or generating new ones from existing files, or using them to create a copy on physical media.
Most operating systems (including Mac OS, BSD, Linux, and Windows, with third-party tools) allow these images to be mounted as if they were physical disks, making them somewhat useful as a universal archive format.
Console emulators, such as ePSXe, and many other emulators that read from CD/DVD, are able to run ISO/BIN (and other similar formats) instead of running directly from the CD drive. Better performance is achieved by running an ISO since there is no waiting for the drive to be ready and the hard drive I/O speed is many times faster than the CD/DVD drive.
A copy of CD contents, stored as an .iso file, is made this way: the ripper searches for the sectors of the CD that have been used, say 251,000 for instance (there are 330,000 sectors on a 74 min CD and 360,000 sectors on an 80 min CD). Each sector is copied to the .ISO file, one by one. For CDs each sector is 2048 bytes, the .ISO file should then be of size 251,000 x 2048 = 514,408,000 bytes.
Nero .NRG files are .ISO files plus a small file header.
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See also
- DAEMON Tools - A free-to-use utility to mount ISO images on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- UltraISO - A shareware program to create, edit & mount ISO images in Windows.
- Alcohol 120% - A CD\DVD burner and image mounting program. Can also create ISO files from discs.
- 7-Zip - A free file archiver that can handle ISO images.
- File Roller - A Unix frontend for extracting ISO files.
- WinRAR - A free file archiver that can handle ISO images.
- MDF file format (.mdf)
- MDS file format (.mds)