On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:17:15PM -0800, Urias McCullough wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:04 PM, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also, something I haven't been able to understand from browsing: what > > exactly is an 'anyboot' image? I gather from one post I found that it > > has both raw and ISO images. The one I dowloaded a while back, though, > > seems to be much the same size as a raw image, so what does than mean? > > It's kinda hard to explain :) > > It contains the proper bits to look like an ISO image to the BIOS > allowing it to be burned to a CD (note, however, that it actually > includes a BFS disk image for the OS, not ISO + overlay like the real > ISO type image), but it also contains an MBR to look like a hard disk > image (and thus, can be dd'd to an HD or USB stick and the BIOS will > boot it just fine). Ah -- I (sorta) understand... I wasn't really aware of the complexities of ISO9660 (and I'm still not sure how a BFS image is accessed through ISO). I see that Wikipedia has pages on 'ISO image' etc., though, which help a bit. Thanks, -- Pete --