[ale] RedHat 6.0

[Benjamin Scherrey]

The .iso file is an ISO9660 cdrom image. Under Linux, utilizing the
local loop, you can actually mount this file as a virtual disk. In fact,
I very much recommend that you do this before burning the cd because if
you can't mount the file then your image is bad and you'll waste a cd
(like I did the first time). Your CD writing software (I have Adaptec
Easy CD Creator on Windows NT) should have the ability to write a CD
from an image file (which is what this is). That's how you should write
the disk. Just writing the file to a CD-ROM will only result in copying
a file and give you nothing except a backup of that file. Once you've
written the CD from the image file the CD-ROM will then have the full
directory structure and files in place as you'd expect and you're off
and running...

	Good luck & later,

		Ben Scherrey

PS: I was not, unfortunately, able to successfully d/l the .iso image
from Ga Tech. I assume that's because I was only able to access via http
and not ftp which is more efficient and probably safer. Several times my
d/l (over 128K ISDN) was aborted for no reason and I had to restart. 

Tom wrote:
> 
> I know I asked this question before, but my hard disk crashed (don't buy
> hard disks from Best Buys, but that is another
> story) and I lost all the previous emails. I downloaded RH 6.0 from the
> gatech ftp site (twice) and burned a CD on a windows
> based machine. I have a Sony CDR that came with a "Hot Burn" CD writer
> package. When I create a CDR with the copy
> file to disk, I am not able to boot with the disk or create a boot disk
> from the .iso file.
> Do I need to unpack or process the .iso somehow?
> Is a direct copy?
> Is a Linux OS the only thing that can read the .iso? (I have Linux 5.2 but
> was going to start with 6.0 instead)