[wplug] Question about working with ISO images

[Edward Walter]

The file size for an uncompressed knoppix 3.0 image should be 706,798 KB.
The 2.2 Beta from May 14 is 706,048 KB.  Other images should be of similar
size.  If your burning your CD's under a Windoze environment, your software
should have an option to "create CD from image".  If you're using Adaptec's
software, it lets you choose either a .cif or .iso file as the source image.
After that, you shouldn't need to worry about making it bootable.  That
capability is either present or lacking in the source image itself.
Incidentally, I've used knoppix and it's a great little package.  Have fun.
-Ed Walter


-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org]On Behalf Of
Sean McCune
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 12:55 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Question about working with ISO images


It could be that its an ISO image wrapped up in a compressed,
self-extracting .exe, but that's only a guess.

Try running the .exe and see if it starts extracting itself.

If not, then just remove the .exe extension and burn the .iso file to CD
and see if it works.

But as to how to create a bootable CD from an ISO image under Windows, I
don't know.  I've only done stuff like that from linux.


McC



On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 12:28, Brad Hoover wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Currently I am downloading an ISO image of KNOPPIX
> (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html).  I
> have never burned an ISO to disk before.  Either
> mozilla download manager or windows has tacked on an
> .exe extention on the image.  So in other words the
> file name is something like filename.iso.exe
>
> Can I just rename the file and take the .exe away,
> burn it to cd and boot it?  Or is there something more
> I have to do when making a cd to boot off of?  Any
> help would be appriciated.
>
> By the way, KNOPPIX looks interesting to me, since I
> want to play with linux on my local machine (Knoppix
> is derived from Debian), but don't really have the
> hardware to do so.  Just wondering what you all
> thought about linux distros that you can boot and
> don't require any disk partitioning.
>
> Brad
>
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