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$\"Gravatar\"$ Please consider using \"ISO-9660\" or \"ISO-9660:1988\" or \"ISO-9660:1999\" here, and not \"ISO format\".

From eons of experience in this area of cross-platform operations, the use of \"ISO format\" in isolation is ambiguous and best avoided.

Some folks assume \"ISO\" to mean ISO-9660 and that is clearly your intent here, and other folks use \"ISO\" to refer to a raw block copy or disk image of the disk. This using dd or other such tools. I won't argue which is correct usage.

Also be mindful of the ISO-9660 extensions that are selected and used to generate transportable media. Some platforms expect or ignore certain sets of extensions to ISO-9660:1988, or do or do not support ISO-9660:1999. In particular, the Joliet, Rock Ridge and HFS extensions may or may not be supported. And if your target platform cannot access Joliet or Rock Ridge, then that introduces constraints on the file names that can be chosen.

I won't get into dual-format disks where there are two separate file structures on one disk, but that too is explicitly possible with ISO-9660.

And thank you for the article.
Stephen Hoffman | Homepage | 01.31.09 - 3:58 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ @Stephen

Thanks for the info. You obviously know a lot more about this than I do!
Matt | Homepage | 01.31.09 - 4:17 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ So what does this mean? I should use ISO-9660 and not the 1988 or 1999 ones?

I'm about to create a disk image of a friend's XP-infected drive now that I've recovered his music & pictures, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!
paul in kirkland | 02.13.09 - 12:55 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Creating ISO files of CDs or other disks you own is a convenient way to backup, archive or (if legal) share them. And it's actually quite easy to do. Most CD/DVD burning software includes the ability to rip or create an iso image.
With this ISO image you can : Distribution of software

Mount \"virtual drives\" which emulate physical CDs or DVDs, such as Virtual Computers. Better performance is achieved by running an ISO image since hard drive I/O is many times faster than CD/DVD drive I/O.

To use software titles that are written in such a way that they require a physical disk to be present in order to run. Games are commonly in this category. For backup, such as PSP backups.

Professional DVD Copy for Mac in particular, is perhaps one of the easiest tools to use for this purpose.

This is a tutorial on how to use DVD Copy (to ISO) Tool to create ISO image from DVD on Mac.

meremeo | 09.18.09 - 8:03 am | #

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