CD and ISO question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:22:19AM -0400, fcsoft-3Emkkp+1Olsmp8TqCH86vg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I've produced a selfhosted(live)CD based on Knoppix for my SIMPL open source 
> project.
> 
> I've found a volunteer with enough bandwidth to host the CD image.
> 
> I have an .iso file that I use with cdrecord to cut my CD.
> 
> How do I get this file to my volunteer host site?    I don't have broadband 
> so I tried simply mailing him a selfhosted(live)CD ... unfortunately the .iso 
> he recreated and posted doesn't boot when burned onto a new CD.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.

Make a cd containing the iso, rather than writing the cd.  Extracting
bootable CDs to file is not trivial, while sending him a cd with just
the iso file in the filesystem would make it a simple copy file to
server procedure.

Lennart Sorensen
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