discuss: Help with iso image files under Windows.
Subject:
Re: Help with iso image files under Windows.
From:
Chris Gehlker ####@####.####
Date:
12 Sep 2003 22:13:24 -0000
Message-Id: <522403BC-E56E-11D7-9200-000A959F4352@mac.com>
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Mark Garboden wrote:
> The ISO images I have used have been handled by my CD burner SW. But
> there are many different CD burner packages out there. Most
> GNU/Linux/OSS documentation (e.g. Knoppix) just says you have to
> figure out how to burn a CD on your own system since they are all
> different.
Ok. I won't try to educate the Windows folks on how to burn the iso
files.
>
> You don't mount anything in Windows. So I think you would just tell
> them to insert the disk and access it like normal, but I'm not sure
> exactly what context this is in.
>
> Mark
>
>
"Mount" is probably not the right word. Attach might be better. Let me
provide some context.
On the Mac one can create an iso file, or any hdi file, and can tell
VPC to treat it as a physical drive. Then on the Mac OS side you can
tell the OS to treat the same ISO as a physical drive. It makes for a
very easy way to move files between operating systems.
I was looking for a way to get the same functionality from VPC under
Windows. Some nice person in private mail mentioned Winimage and Elby
CloneCD. That's what I wanted. It looks like CloneCD is a thing of the
past, though.
>
> Chris Gehlker wrote:
>
>> I'm writing my first mini-HowTo about installing and running Linux
>> under Virtual PC. I'm trying to make it apply whether the virtual
>> computer is hosted on Windows or Mac OS since most of the issues seem
>> to be the same. I've run into a problem with Windows, though, in that
>> out of the box it doesn't seem to understand iso image files. It can
>> neither burn them nor mount them.
>>
>> I've been told that on Windows folks address this with third party
>> utilities but I don't have a feel for whether there is one program
>> that everyone uses. If I just tell typical Windows users to mount
>> and/or burn an iso image will they understand? If I have to step
>> them through it, is there some, hopefully free, program that I can
>> recommend?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Chris
>>
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>> -Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer (1832-1898)
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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