[wplug] Question about working with ISO images

[Brad Hoover]

Thanks to Ed and Shane for their help.  I eneded up
making a swap partition anyway.  But now I can run the
kernel with X and KDE 3 off of a cd and a tiny amount
of disk space.  This, for me atleast, is a good
alternative until I get some new hardware to run linux
properly.  By the way Shane, the .exe at the end was
just some garbage put on the end by Win or mozilla,
once I renamed it, the iso worked fine.

As for Koppix itself, I think this could be really
beneficial when trying to bring new converts to linux.
 In most cases no disk partitioning is needed (which
was always my biggest headache) to run it, so a
windows user can get to use a limited version of Linux
and KDE without having to do anything to their
machine.

So the selling point when trying to get someone to use
linux for the first time via Koppix, could be, "Boot
it, if you don't like it take it out and reboot. 
That's it."

Brad


--- Edward Walter <ewalter at tpresence.com> wrote:
> 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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