[mythtv-users] Pundit/MythFE Distribution ready for testing!

[Ray Olszewski]

At 01:06 PM 6/24/2003 +0100, Purchase, Steven wrote:
> > > Would anyone happen to know how to get this onto a CD
> > > from within Windows in order to test it? Does a .iso
> > > really have anything other than raw data in
> >
> > You can burn an .iso with Windows. No problem whatsoever.
>
>Thanks for the info but you mis-understood the question. He said the image
>is in straight dd format, ie. raw data intended to go straight to the drive.
>I was wondering if an .iso is also raw data written directly to the drive.
>This would have allowed me to simply rename the data as .iso and use Nero as
>you suggest.
>
>Having thought about it I guess the boot strategy is possibly different for
>a CD so I am less confident about it working. Anyone else got any ideas how
>to test a 50Mb image without buying the CF adapter first? I suppose I could
>trash an old HDD and use that...

An .iso file customarily contains the image of an iso9660 filesystem. The 
usual tool for making these on Linux systems is mkisofs (your distro 
probably provides it). Once you've make an .iso file, you can probably just 
move it over to a Windows system and burn it (I don't know for sure since 
my CD burner is on my Linux system).

But you are right to hesitate about the difference in boot strategies. To 
get a feel for this, read the section on "El Torito" in the man page for 
mkisofs. Using a small, old hard disk (or a partition on a larger one) is 
probably a better testing strategy.