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Re: HP e3000 918LX MPE installation
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Chris Hanson <[log in to unmask]>
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Chris Hanson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:10:11 -0800
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On Dec 14, 2022, at 11:32 AM, Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Install CDs for MPE/iX are, IIRC, not in CDFS format.  The fact your CDs
> are named with ".iso" implies to me that they are not installable...rather,
> you'd ise them after booting up.

Whether for good or ill, the “.iso” extension has never actually implied the presence of an ISO-9660 filesystem on a volume; it’s been the extension used for raw sector images of CDs since around when ISO-9660 was introduced, and I believe someone conflated them way back then.

Relatively few files with a “.iso” extension in the wild will actually contain an ISO-9660 filesystem. Some, however, will have LIF. :)

  — Chris

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