newbie installation question

[Tena Sakai]

Hi Vince,

I cut CD and that CD is letting me run hardware test now.
I think I will let it run the memory test all night long and
catch some sleep myself and boot ubuntu tomorrow.

What you told me is indeed a fantastic operational wisdom.
But I still don't understand why bunch of files cannot be put
onto different media.  If I have a directory full of data, and
I can transport it on a floppy, tape, memory stick, or whatever.
So long as I have a compatible device to read the data, media
doesn't matter, does it?

I thank you very much.

Regards,

Tena

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

From: Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr>
Subject: Re: newbie installation question
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 10:19 PM

> I am now finished with downloading.  It is 699 MB

AHHH, 699 not 715, phew ! That should work much better ! ;-)

> > No wonder it didn't work... an ISO image is not just a file, it's an
> > image of the media (hence it's name).
> Hence its name?  I lost you.  The only letter in ISO that I can see
> in "image of the media" is I.  What does the rest of the acronym
> stand for?  Or is it acronym at all?

Huuu, here, I only meant that the terminology calls it an ISO
"image" (rather than "file") for a good reason ! ;-)

> > So an "image" of a CD can only be go to a CD media, not DVD!
> > And vice versa.  So you must burnt your ISO to a CD not a DVD.
> 
> I take your word for it.  But why is that?  Isn't a bit just a bit?  Why
> can't a set of bits put onto CD and not DVD?

Well it's jsut how things are. A CD image is a CD image and a DVD image
is a DVD image... triyng to fit a sqaure in a round is not going to
work is it ?! ;-) I can understand that the fact tha ta DVD and a CD
medium are visually a similarly sied piece of round plastic, however in
the inside, a DVD is not a CD... hence why you (used to) require a
different optical drive to write a CD or a DVD.
When you had 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks, you would not try to stuff a
3.5 disk into a 5.25" drive... same for a Cd and DVD... two different
things.

--
Vince

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