Theres much more than enough info on the net to work out what a .iso file is.. Like http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/isofaq.html#whatisiso And I suggest if you can google effectively you can look a lot smarter.. Asking questions that are easily answered using google just makes people look stupid. -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Denby [mailto:redhat(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:43 PM To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] ISO meaning Greigs right, and wrong at the same time, .. That actually gives him a better hit rate than me, ... as for him being a grumpy bugger, you get used to that too. Smile Greig :-) .iso doesn't stand for anything. its just a common label given to a cd image file. nero by default uses nrg, and there are others too, but they are just an image of the file. and iso is the most common one you will find. However the name iso was derived form the standards organization label ISO-9660 which is the rules governing the most common method of storing data on a cd. As a general rule, if you see a file labeled something.iso you know you are dealing with a CD image. On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 08:20 PM, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote:
I haven't been able to discover a glossary to let me know what a .iso file actually is, what .iso stand for. Someone?