February 2005
Beginner
384 pages
9h 8m
English
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Burning Disk Images
You need to create installation disks if you have downloaded the disk image files from the Internet. If you buy a Linux distribution or try out Linux with a live CD version, you don't have to burn any disks.
When you download a Linux distribution, you need to know what to do with those giant files that you now have sitting on your computer. Those files that you downloaded are disk images, usually ISOs. An ISO contains all of the files needed for the CD that you will create. You might have three or four of those giant files. Most Linux distributions are multidisk sets. Each disk image that you download is probably going to be larger than 600MB. Depending on your current operating system, the ISO files might look like archives ...