[Fedora] RE: Announcing Fedora Core 5 Test1

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Sat Nov 26 22:56:51 UTC 2005


Michael Hennebry wrote:

>I had thought that an iso was an image.
>What distinction is being drawn here?
>  
>
    It is, however when burning, one can burn an iso image, or an iso 
file.  If you burn an iso image, you end up with a usable disk 
containing files and folders.  If you burn an iso file, you end up with 
one large file on your disk.  Pretty useless, except for maybe backup 
purposes.

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