Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-11 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread alex
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread Nano Nano
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread alex
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread alex
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread Nano Nano
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread Travis Crump
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.

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread alex
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread Uwe Dippel
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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

Re: OT: ISO and Image files-semantics problem

2004-01-09 Thread Nano Nano
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,