How to use ISO-file CD?

Question

Hi,   I am new to this.   I have downloaded and burned on CD the Dell CD ISO - Installation and Server Management - 4.5_ISM_A00.ISO file.   Now what? Should I extract it, what are the installation guidelines, location of installation etc?

fahlenkp · Answer

What are you trying to do? Build an IT assistant management console? Install Server Administrator?

Kingparrot · Answer

Fahlenkp - Thank you for taking an interest in someone out there in the wilderness.   My first objective was to be able to locally manage RAID storage devices in my PE 2400, then do diagnostics etc on all parts of the server, in short Server Management I believe.   In the Dell Drivers & Downloads the descriptions are short and cryptic. So I thought that instead of going separately to each possible download I would take a shortcut and have a peak inside the ISO CD's. However, I am not any the wiser, the ISO CD is still looking at me and has not divulged it's secrets. I have not found any instructions how to have a look 'inside' the ISO CD that would enable me to decide what I want and then install it.   So, I decided to install the Dell OpenManage Administrator DOMN32A00.exe. I had updated all drivers and firmware, and it worked like a charm.   This has now enabled me to focus on the part in the computer (the PCI/ISA 16-bit slot) that is not working. I have to do a separate post on that.   In any case, I am still short of instructions in how to open up the ISO CD's. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks and regards.

trambo · Answer

Any ISO image file is simply a file used to create a CD. You need a CD burning software that will allow you to take the ISO image file and make a new CD from it.

If you have Roxio, all you have to do is open up the software the selecet the "Make a Data cd and then from the File menu select the Record CD from CD Image file. Then navigate to the image file, ISO file you just downloaded and then put a blank CD in your cd burner and away you go to Record a new CD.

Other software should be similar.

Kingparrot · Answer

I have Nero. I have done the burning to a Data CD and ended up with an ISO file on it, ie. a copy of the downloaded file.

What I am after is the step after burning the ISO file. The computer does not understand the ISO file. It must be extracted/translated somehow.

Or perhaps I am doing something plain wrong?

trambo · Answer

Hopefully this will help.   http://www.wizardskeep.org/mainhall/tutor/neroiso.html   http://www.bay-wolf.com/burnimage.htm   You're not buring the ISO file to a disk, you're buring the extraced image of what is in the file to a disk.  Essentially, you're creating a data cd from what is in the ISO file, not the ISO file itself.   For instance, I often use the ISO files for Poweredge updates.  When using Roxio, I Record CD from Image file, I am making a data CD with all the tools and utilities that are within the ISO image file.  Think of an ISO file like a compressed GHOST image file that once accessed, will write all the data from within the compressed file out to a disk so it can be used.  Essentially you're unzipping the ISO to the CD.

Kingparrot · Answer

You beauty. Now I understand. Thank you very much for that. Why does not Dell use snippets like this? I am now off to the CD+R and DVD shop. Thanks again. Cheers

trambo · Answer

Glad I could help!!

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