2007-05-24 06:44:31 · 4 answers · asked by reallytwisted714 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
An iso is an image of either a DVD or a CD. That image is bootable if you call it a bootable iso. To make an iso bootable, the software used to create the iso has be told to make the iso bootable.
An image is literally what the CD or DVD looks like on their respective medial. When you burn these to media, you're not burning individual files, you're burning the image so you have exact replica of the original.
In FreeBSD, to burn a CD or DVD, one must first create an ISO. After the iso is create it is burned to the media. The created iso is also usable in other operating systems, but it must be burned as an image onto the media.
To answer the question, what does a bootable iso look like? It looks like any other file on your disk whose extension is likely to be .iso.
2007-05-24 06:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by Huge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ISO image is a file. ISO is mostly Unix/linux format. its different from ZIP format.
google the rest. :)
2007-05-24 06:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by steven25t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like a normal CD except it has extra boot code
2007-05-24 06:51:59 · answer #3 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is data on a cd disk used to install computer programs.
2007-05-24 06:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋