Joe, On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:43:12 +0000, you wrote:
>No, it's the very opposite of knowing where things go. The dd command >is a very simple, completely unintelligent copier. But an ISO file is >an image, literally every byte stored on some medium being scraped up >in order, with the intention that it is laid down byte-for-byte starting >at location zero on some other medium. I understand the laying down of content well enough, but I have always thought that when something is created, it has a name, and some firmwares look for that name as the first thing in a table of names, so when a .ISO file gets laid down on a piece of media, the first thing in that media's names table is the name of the ISO file, not the contents thereof, which is why there are image-burner programs out there that don't lay the package down as a package, but open it and lay down the contents as such. Maybe I needa go back to school to learn how this works.
