Why iso files

At first bootup you have automatically got the entire drive to play in. This is momentous, and thanks to Dima forum member 'dimkr' , our most prolific woof-CE developer, the next-generation Puppy is being offered as a drive-image.

I receive regular messages expressing opposition to dropping ISO files, mostly by email. What I have observed is that the messages are from Puppy old-timers.

They have a collection of vintage PCs, all with optical drives. And they ain't gonna change. I am reminded of my step-mother, currently residing in a nursing home. She is 88, and still uses a keyboard flip-phone and an audio cassette player. When the telco dropped support for 3G, I bought her an Android touch phone.

Despite very careful instruction, and even writing down simple steps to make a call, etc. She just didn't want to know, and after awhile I had to buy her another keyboard flip-phone. Ditto with her little portable cassette player.

Recently it stopped working and I had to buy another one from China. I did try to introduce her to mp3 files a few years ago, but nup, didn't want to know.

About a year ago, I received an email from a representative of a German Linux magazine. I think that magazine still ships printed magazines with a CD stuck on the front. Anyway, he wanted to review EasyOS and had some questions, and I replied, yeah, go for it. But, I became increasingly puzzled by his questions. They didn't make any sense. The penny finally dropped when I realised that he didn't have a clue what a Linux distribution on a drive-image file is.

As mentioned above, the mainline distributions may stick with ISO format just because they have no compelling reason to change. Oh yes, there are some old computers that won't boot from USB, well they are ancient and approaching relegation to "Silicon Heaven" you need to be a fan of the Red Dwarf TV series to know what Silicon Heaven is.

There are some multi-boot tools, that enable putting many ISO files on the one USB-stick; however, the ISO format does not have any intrinsic avantage, these boot managers could also be made to boot image files. Apps Apps General Discussion. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. The reason behind such issue is that as soon as WinRAR is installed on the computer, it automatically associates all the supported file formats with it.

During the installation process, many versions of WinRAR ask the end users to select which types of files should be associated with the application. Apart from the above 2 scenarios, there might also be instances where you, as an innocent and ignorant user, have accidentally associated an ISO file with WinRAR.

In order to do so, you are just required to initialize WinRAR application, not by double-clicking any compressed file but by starting it as a program by double-clicking its EXE file from its installation folder. Make sure that you restart your computer after you have un-associated the ISO file type from WinRAR application in order to allow all the changes to take effect.

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Post thread. Laptop Tech Support. Laptop General Discussion. Apps General Discussion. Moderators online. Tom's Guide is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved. The contents of the drive are the files and folders that make up the ISO file.

If you have Windows 8 or later, you don't need any additional software to mount an ISO file as a virtual drive. You can simply right-click the ISO file to open the context menu and select Mount. Then, start the installation by clicking the file called setup or setup. If you don't have Windows 8 or later, you need to download additional software before you can mount an ISO file. Here are some mounting tools you can use that are either free or have free versions available:.

If you need another installation option that doesn't require a DVD writer, you can extract the installation files to your hard drive using file compression software. After you extract the files to a new or empty folder, the folder will contain the same files that would be on an installation disc for this product.

You can open the folder in Windows Explorer and double click the file called setup or setup. Many applications that can be used with ZIP files can also be used with ISO files, so you may already have such an application available. Your application might use the word decompress rather than extract or unzip , but the result is the same. You need additional software to extract an ISO file. Here are some file compression applications you can use that are either free of have free versions available:.