[KLUG Members] CD Burning, a Question or Two

[Robert G. Brown]

>I downloaded ISO images... and burned them to CD. They seemed to work
>fine when I tried booting and/or opening them on the machine I used, but
>when I tried them in my new laptop's reader, it doesn't seem to even be
>able to recognize them! Here is the command I used
Please tell us about the CDROMs you used, and about your laptop's CDROM
drive.. speed, interface, etc.
....
IMO the command, etc . is OK.
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>ISO images on the hard drive could somehow be mounted.... as though they'd
>been burned to CD.
mount /fully/qualified/path/name /mnout/point/in/filesystem -o loop

RTFM page, you'll get a more general (maybe more confusing, too! ) explanation.

>Does anyone know anything about this, or am I just losing my mind?
Yes, see the above.

>The former does not preclude the latter, I know.
Good. I wasn't going to mention it, since it's off-topic, but you have a 
point! :)
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