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  Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-22 22:38 -0500
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive MR <MR@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-23 05:19 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-23 00:39 -0500
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-23 10:34 +0100
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 03:11 -0700
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-25 23:21 +0000
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-25 23:29 -0500
          Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 08:13 +0000
            Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 06:14 -0500
            Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:00 +0000
              Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 17:42 +0000
                Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-01-27 08:00 +0000
                  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-27 08:34 +0000
                    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-01-29 18:35 +0000
              Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 18:58 -0500
                Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-01-27 19:22 +0000
                  Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-01-29 18:35 +0000
                    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-01-30 17:22 +0000
                      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-21 22:13 +1000
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-26 01:40 -0700
          Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive David <David@example.net> - 2025-01-26 17:16 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-01-23 13:07 +0000
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-24 09:54 -0500
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-24 11:08 -0500
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-23 11:07 -0500
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 17:20 +0000
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-23 19:51 +0100
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-25 12:48 -0500
          Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-25 20:16 +0100
            Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 01:55 +0100
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-26 18:14 +0000
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-26 18:19 +0000
    Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive Drummond <Drummond@lkjuj.com> - 2025-01-27 00:11 +0000
      Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 21:10 -0500
        Re: Can I only put one .iso file on a flashdrive "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-27 13:06 +0100

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#181746

On 26/01/2025 08:40, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
> David wrote on 1/25/25 4:21 PM:
>> On 23/01/2025 10:11, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
>> [....]
>>> No, you can put as many isos as you wish on a flash drive that has 
>>> sufficient storage space to hold the iso files.
>>>
>>> My 32 GB flash drive has ISO's for Win11 22/23/24H2 plus 
>>> IMG(mountable file like ISO) for both M365 Family and Office 2019 
>>> Home and Business.
>>>
>>> Those 5 account for ~25 GB. Leaving room for all my other primary 
>>> programs'installers(just shy of 2 GB more - iTunes, Imaging, 
>>> Browsers, and few other utilities and diskpart scripts)
>>
>> Do you use Ventoy to assist with accessing those iso files?
>>
>> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
>>
>> I've been using Ventoy recently and found that it worked really well.
 >
> No, those isos/img,exes are present on a single USB stick and each iso 
> iso mountable when needed for installation, exe for installation, 
> troubleshooting, or other file information or replacement - a handy, 
> stick with a range of content like any other multi-purpose utility.

OK. Thank you. :-)

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#181673

On 2025-01-23 03:38, micky wrote:
>
> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
> 
> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
> which I have used in the past.
> 
> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it.
> 
> I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want
> many more.
> 
> When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
> came across
> https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
> but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
> sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
> anyone used it, or something similar?
> 
> **He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow.  I'm
> temporarily too sick to go over there.

Sorry you are unwell, there seems to be a lot of it about ATM.

A lot depends on what is on the DVD(s), which you don't tell us ...

If it's media, such as a movie, then Paul has explained already how to 
do this.  It shouldn't matter how many ISOs you put on the USB drive, as 
long as it has enough space on it to hold what is required.

If it's games, then I suspect that there will be at least some variance, 
possibly a great deal, by the type of game, etc, but really I wouldn't 
be the person to ask about this anyway.

However, if there is a need to boot from the DVD, and Ventoy, as 
suggested by MR, doesn't work, then I might be your guy, but if, as 
seems from the above, your friend is not particularly computer savvy, 
then I suspect that he's in for crash learning course.

See a recent thread* of mine dated 2025-01-06 and cross-posted to ...
	alt.os.linux,
	uk.comp.os.linux,
	alt.windows7.general
... entitled ...
	"SOLVED: One Rescue USB does it all"
... where, in the final two sections, I launch various Ubuntu and 
Windows installation ISOs using grub.

* And possibly also its earlier incarnation of 2024-06-22 similarly 
cross-posted entitled ...
	"One Rescue USB does it all, well that's the plan at any rate"
... but I don't think there is anything that you would need in that 
earlier thread that isn't reproduced in the later thread.

In summary, you have to install, and thereafter maintain, grub somehow, 
and that's probably going to be easiest if you also install at least a 
minimal Linux OS, but, as simply I installed XUbuntu into one of the 
partitions, I didn't go into any detail there on obtaining a minimal 
Linux installation.  Thereafter, you can use the grub examples given in 
thread to experiment with launching different ISOs directly from grub.

-- 

Fake news kills!

I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: 
www.macfh.co.uk

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#181698

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:07:05 +0000, Java Jive
<java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

>On 2025-01-23 03:38, micky wrote:
>>
>> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
>> 
>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>> which I have used in the past.
>> 
>> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
>> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it.
>> 
>> I"m thinking that now he says he only has one DVD, but later he'll want
>> many more.
>> 
>> When I googled to see the limit was one, I didn't get an answer, but I
>> came across
>> https://www.atera.com/blog/how-to-put-multiple-operating-systems-on-a-flash-drive/
>> but that is about putting more than one OS on a flashdrive. Still it
>> sounded like something I should remember for my own future needs. Has
>> anyone used it, or something similar?
>> 
>> **He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow.  I'm
>> temporarily too sick to go over there.
>
>Sorry you are unwell, there seems to be a lot of it about ATM.

But not like my csse.  I had serious back pain and went to a pain
doctor. Twice he used shots to anesthetize a nerve, and twice he used a
steroid shot, and they had no effect.  So he suggested a spinal cord
stimulator, something like noise cancelling headphones, that send a
frenquency into the spinal cord that masks the pain. 

This was just a TRIAL, without implanint the fig newton size device
inside me, only taped to my side, and only two wires going near my
spinal cord. 

After 7 days it didn't wdrk either, he removed it. Within 5 minutes the
pain in the orignal spot in my back was enormous and within 30 minutes,
my thighs and crotch started  going numb.  `15 minutes later, I couldn't
move my legs and had to be carried on a sheet to the guerney for the
ambulance. 

At the hospital within 30 minutes my ankles, legs, and toes started
moving again, so I was only paralysed for 3 hours. That was a relief.
But I didn't notice until the next day that I had total urinary
incontinence, caused by a hematoma on my spinal cord. They say that is
likely to go away when the hemantoma is absorbed, but can take up to 3
months. It's now 6 weeks with 7 more to go, or maybe it will not go away
at all.  I"m optimistic.  The doctor has been a jerk, afaic. 
>
>A lot depends on what is on the DVD(s), which you don't tell us ...

I thought I did but I'll take your word for this. 

>If it's media, such as a movie, then Paul has explained already how to 
>do this.  It shouldn't matter how many ISOs you put on the USB drive, as 
>long as it has enough space on it to hold what is required.

It is a movie.  This post should be a thank-you and reply to everyone. 

I used Imgburn to make an .iso of the file, but it didn't work.  I had
tried to be clever by leaving some files on the flashdrive and figure
Imgburn would delete them or complain, but neither happened, so I blamed
that, deleted everything and did it again. The second one didn't work
either, and eventually I noticed the flashdrive was empty. I had put the
.iso on the D drive and not the E drive.  So I did it a 3rd time. 

This time I started VLC first and used it to find the .iso, and it
brought up an introductory page.  My friend had gotten that far too,
using an external DVD drive. But clicking on the words like Full Feature
and Sections made it blink and change colors but nothing else happened.
Finally I right clicked, put the cursor on Playback, moved the cursor to
Titles, and them moved the cursor to a specific title, as those menus
opened.  And it played.  

Maybe the first one I made would have worked too if I'd tried right
clicking. The few dvd's I've had I played on a DVD player, and the only
.iso I remembewr using was a copy of windows 10 I dl'd and used to
install windows.  It didn't have an introductory page, and that's what
confused both of us, but he needed the virtual DVD, and now he has one. 

I forgot to check if it will play straight through from start to finish,
but a) this seems good enough for an instructional Tai-Chi video where
each title is about one particular tai chi move/stance/whatever; and b)
I put over 5 hours into this, so that's enough. They do lots of favors
for me, so I'm happy to find something I can do for them.   OTOH, he has
a Ph.D. in math and worked in technical fields all his career, so I'm
surprised he needs help at all. He's 84 iirc and his back is bent, but I
see no sign that his mind has slowed at all. That is, he would have
needed this help 30 years ago too. 

He also had an external DVD drive that works now with a similar method, 
I had been finding the DVD or the virtual DVD in a file manager and
didn't know which file to click on, and none of them worked anyhow.
Maybe I was supposed to click on the folder? 

Putting more than one .iso on a flashdrive was not the immediate goal,
so I read everything people wrote, but that can wait. 

So thanks again, to you and everyone. 


>If it's games, then I suspect that there will be at least some variance, 
>possibly a great deal, by the type of game, etc, but really I wouldn't 
>be the person to ask about this anyway.
>
>However, if there is a need to boot from the DVD, and Ventoy, as 
>suggested by MR, doesn't work, then I might be your guy, but if, as 
>seems from the above, your friend is not particularly computer savvy, 
>then I suspect that he's in for crash learning course.
>
>See a recent thread* of mine dated 2025-01-06 and cross-posted to ...
>	alt.os.linux,
>	uk.comp.os.linux,
>	alt.windows7.general
>... entitled ...
>	"SOLVED: One Rescue USB does it all"
>... where, in the final two sections, I launch various Ubuntu and 
>Windows installation ISOs using grub.
>
>* And possibly also its earlier incarnation of 2024-06-22 similarly 
>cross-posted entitled ...
>	"One Rescue USB does it all, well that's the plan at any rate"
>... but I don't think there is anything that you would need in that 
>earlier thread that isn't reproduced in the later thread.
>
>In summary, you have to install, and thereafter maintain, grub somehow, 
>and that's probably going to be easiest if you also install at least a 
>minimal Linux OS, but, as simply I installed XUbuntu into one of the 
>partitions, I didn't go into any detail there on obtaining a minimal 
>Linux installation.  Thereafter, you can use the grub examples given in 
>thread to experiment with launching different ISOs directly from grub.

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#181699

On 1/24/25 09:54 AM, micky wrote:
> So he suggested a spinal cord
> stimulator, something like noise cancelling headphones, that send a
> frenquency into the spinal cord that masks the pain.
> 
> This was just a TRIAL, without implanint the fig newton size device
> inside me, only taped to my side, and only two wires going near my
> spinal cord.
I've had 4 surgeries for mine.  My doc suggested this stimulator too but to me that's not fixing the 
issue.

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.6,  Kernel 6.8.0-51-generic
Thunderbird 128.5.2esr, Mozilla Firefox 134.0.1
Alan K.

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#181675

On Wed, 1/22/2025 10:38 PM, micky wrote:

> **He bought an external DVD player but it doesn't work somehow.  I'm
> temporarily too sick to go over there. 

You need a series of test titles, to test a drive.

For example, I have some DVDs I made myself. Those don't
have crypto or weak sector protection, so those should
play in a computer. A wedding-video DVD is an example
of something that should play in the DVD player (VLC should
be enough, to read the menu and select a chapter). These are
non-Hollywood medias that should play properly.

   Paul

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#181676

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
> 
> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
> which I have used in the past. 
> 
> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it. 

An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like
for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what
you're asking. 

*Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?

Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it
locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn
anything to a flash drive. 

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#181677

On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
>>
>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>> which I have used in the past.
>>
>> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
>> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it.
> 
> An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like
> for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what
> you're asking.
> 
> *Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
> burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?

We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing 
the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there. 
When inserting that flash media the computer acts as if you inserted a 
CD/DVD, and can boot directly from it.

   dd if=somefile.iso  of=/dev/sdd

It is equivalent to burning to a DVD using burning software. Only a 
single ISO can be burned to a given stick.

> 
> Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it
> locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn
> anything to a flash drive.


Right.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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#181718

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:51:59 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
>> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
>>>
>>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>>> which I have used in the past.
>>>
>>> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
>>> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it.
>> 
>> An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like
>> for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what
>> you're asking.
>> 
>> *Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
>> burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
>
>We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing 
>the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there. 

The point of the following story is that Imgburn didn't destory the
files that werer there, like I thouhgt it would. 

  My answer to Java Jave wss meant for everyone and explained why it
took me 3 tries to make the virtual DVD. 

The first time I thoguth I'd be clever and, though I'd moved the few
files alredy on the flashdrive,  I didn't delete them and expected
Imgburn to do that. When it didn't, I deleted them myself and still it
didn't work as a virtual DVD (or it did, but I didn't right click on the
introdcutory page that I think showed up.)

Then I erased the files on the flashdrive and did it again, but this
time I wrote it to the C: Drive instead of D. Then I wondered why it
didnt' work.  

The 3rd time it worked. 
 -- end of story --

>When inserting that flash media the computer acts as if you inserted a 
>CD/DVD, and can boot directly from it.

Not quite as good as a red dvd in a dvd drive, for me. The first starts
up on its own, and this one requred starting VLC and finding the dvd
entity. 
>
>   dd if=somefile.iso  of=/dev/sdd
>
>It is equivalent to burning to a DVD using burning software. Only a 
>single ISO can be burned to a given stick.

I think so too, but in this case, the stick was onoy 2gigs big and the
files were 1.7 gigs big, so no  extra space anyhnow. The stick ws named
after the defense contractor he worked for 10 years ago, so it was old
and that's why it was so small. 
>> 
>> Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it
>> locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn
>> anything to a flash drive.
>
>
>Right.

I thought burn was reserved for cd and dvd disks where some heat, laser
hear, was actually involved in writing to them. 

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#181719

On 2025-01-25 18:48, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:51:59 +0100, "Carlos
> E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
>>> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>>> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
>>>>
>>>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>>>> which I have used in the past.
>>>>
>>>> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a flashdrive.
>>>> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it.
>>>
>>> An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you like
>>> for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be what
>>> you're asking.
>>>
>>> *Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
>>> burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
>>
>> We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing
>> the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there.
> 
> The point of the following story is that Imgburn didn't destory the
> files that werer there, like I thouhgt it would.

Which means it did not do a burn, but a file copy.

In Linux parlance (but Windows also has the 'dd' command) it is:

   dd if=filename.iso  of=/dev/sdd

which means copy filename.iso to the disk device of the destination, not 
to the filesystem existing in the device. The operation destroys 
whatever filesystem existed in the stick.

What Imgburn did was perhaps:

   cp filename.iso  d:\

It might instead have opened the iso and copied the files inside.


> 
>    My answer to Java Jave wss meant for everyone and explained why it
> took me 3 tries to make the virtual DVD.
> 
> The first time I thoguth I'd be clever and, though I'd moved the few
> files alredy on the flashdrive,  I didn't delete them and expected
> Imgburn to do that. When it didn't, I deleted them myself and still it
> didn't work as a virtual DVD (or it did, but I didn't right click on the
> introdcutory page that I think showed up.)
> 
> Then I erased the files on the flashdrive and did it again, but this
> time I wrote it to the C: Drive instead of D. Then I wondered why it
> didnt' work.
> 
> The 3rd time it worked.
>   -- end of story --
> 
>> When inserting that flash media the computer acts as if you inserted a
>> CD/DVD, and can boot directly from it.
> 
> Not quite as good as a red dvd in a dvd drive, for me. The first starts
> up on its own, and this one requred starting VLC and finding the dvd
> entity.

Because it is Windows and not Linux, so VLC has to be clever.


>>
>>    dd if=somefile.iso  of=/dev/sdd
>>
>> It is equivalent to burning to a DVD using burning software. Only a
>> single ISO can be burned to a given stick.
> 
> I think so too, but in this case, the stick was onoy 2gigs big and the
> files were 1.7 gigs big, so no  extra space anyhnow. The stick ws named
> after the defense contractor he worked for 10 years ago, so it was old
> and that's why it was so small.
>>>
>>> Providing an iso file to your friend is sufficient as they can mount it
>>> locally and "play" it. I don't *think* there's any need for you to burn
>>> anything to a flash drive.
>>
>>
>> Right.
> 
> I thought burn was reserved for cd and dvd disks where some heat, laser
> hear, was actually involved in writing to them.

Yes, true, but we also use the verb with flashsticks indicating a 
special mode of copy.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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#181721

On 2025-01-25 20:16, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-01-25 18:48, micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:51:59 +0100, "Carlos
>> E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-01-23 18:20, Chris wrote:
>>>> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
>>>>> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
>>>>>
>>>>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using 
>>>>> Imgburn
>>>>> which I have used in the past.
>>>>>
>>>>> My recollection is that one can only put one .iso file on a 
>>>>> flashdrive.
>>>>> Right?   This is the main question.  Google didn't seem to answer it.
>>>>
>>>> An iso is just a file like any other so you can store as many as you 
>>>> like
>>>> for simply transferring from one place to another. Which seems to be 
>>>> what
>>>> you're asking.
>>>>
>>>> *Burning* an image to a drive is a one time thing - typically - but is
>>>> burning really what you're after? Or just copying the iso?
>>>
>>> We use the term "burning" when referring to flash media to mean writing
>>> the file to the raw media, destroying whatever filesystem was there.
>>
>> The point of the following story is that Imgburn didn't destory the
>> files that werer there, like I thouhgt it would.
> 
> Which means it did not do a burn, but a file copy.
> 
> In Linux parlance (but Windows also has the 'dd' command) it is:
> 
>    dd if=filename.iso  of=/dev/sdd
> 
> which means copy filename.iso to the disk device of the destination, not 
> to the filesystem existing in the device. The operation destroys 
> whatever filesystem existed in the stick.
> 
> What Imgburn did was perhaps:
> 
>    cp filename.iso  d:\
> 
> It might instead have opened the iso and copied the files inside.

I don't know how to explain this properly, because Linux and Windows 
have one important difference. In Linux, everything is a file. The raw 
hard disk is a file. You can format a hard disk simply by copying a file 
to a certain other file, or by writing to it. Formatting is not an 
special operation.

"Burning" equals to formatting the stick with a DVD format, that we call 
ISO. In Linux, we can do that with dd, or with a simple copy:

   cp filename.iso /dev/sdd

where /dev/sdd is the special file that is the stick. But this very 
similar in looks command:

   cp filename.iso /media/stick

or in windows:

   cp filename.iso  d:\

is copying a file into the stick filesystem, not formatting it. 
Previously, we mounted /dev/sdd into /media/stick.

To do the burning operation in Windows you need special software that 
can access the raw stick, and do a format.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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#181748

On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
> 
> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
> which I have used in the past.

So presumably it's either an unprotected, unencrypted DVD or you also 
have some software to decrypt it before you image it?

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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#181749

On 26/01/2025 18:14, Brian Gregory wrote:
> On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
>> A friend without a DVD player in his pc wants to play the DVD**
>>
>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>> which I have used in the past.
> 
> So presumably it's either an unprotected, unencrypted DVD or you also 
> have some software to decrypt it before you image it?
> 

Oh wait. I think you're calling a DVD reader or DVD drive a "DVD 
player". How confusing of you. Forget I tried to answer.

Or maybe you mean DVD player software?

FFS.

I give up.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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#181756

On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
> which I have used in the past.

Why use imgburn just to copy music files?

The files can just be copied like any other files on a flash drive but 
if you are really concerned about the number of lose files then just zip 
them and then copy the zipped file on to the flash drive. This way you 
save the trouble the recipient is likely to face if he/she doesn't know 
what to do with the iso files.

ISO files can be extracted but the recipient might not know how to do it.

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#181757

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:11:25 +0000, Drummond
<Drummond@lkjuj.com> wrote:

>On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>> which I have used in the past.
>
>Why use imgburn just to copy music files?

Because it works? 
>
>The files can just be copied like any other files on a flash drive but 

Not from what I've read.  With a simple copy, the files are copied but
their arrangement to ech other is not.   A virtual DVD requires an .iso
file afaik.

>if you are really concerned about the number of lose files then just zip 
>them and then copy the zipped file on to the flash drive. This way you 
>save the trouble the recipient is likely to face if he/she doesn't know 
>what to do with the iso files.

What if he doesn't know what to do with a zip file? 
>
>ISO files can be extracted but the recipient might not know how to do it.
>
That would be a big problem.  That's why I made an .iso file itself,
that doesn't need extraction. 
>
>

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#181762

On 2025-01-27 03:10, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:11:25 +0000, Drummond
> <Drummond@lkjuj.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 23/01/2025 03:38, micky wrote:
>>> I said I would copy it to an .iso file on a flashdrive.   Using Imgburn
>>> which I have used in the past.
>>
>> Why use imgburn just to copy music files?
> 
> Because it works?
>>
>> The files can just be copied like any other files on a flash drive but
> 
> Not from what I've read.  With a simple copy, the files are copied but
> their arrangement to ech other is not.   A virtual DVD requires an .iso
> file afaik.

A music CD or DVD has to be ripped. You copy the resulting files of the 
ripping into a directory in the stick. You also generate an .au3 file 
with the index so that it plays in order.


> 
>> if you are really concerned about the number of lose files then just zip
>> them and then copy the zipped file on to the flash drive. This way you
>> save the trouble the recipient is likely to face if he/she doesn't know
>> what to do with the iso files.
> 
> What if he doesn't know what to do with a zip file?
>>
>> ISO files can be extracted but the recipient might not know how to do it.
>>
> That would be a big problem.  That's why I made an .iso file itself,
> that doesn't need extraction.

Any iso file does need extraction.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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