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Originally Posted by jswinden
No clue what ISO even is.
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International Standards Organization, which has thousands of standards.
ISO 9660 happens to be a standard for a computer file system on compact disc. About the time typical hard disks became much larger than compact disc capacity, it became common to save bit for bit raw contents of of compact discs as a single file, often with the file name extension iso.
Some operating systems can mount such a so-called "disk image" as a virtual disk drive.
If such a file is written directly to a writable compact disk, that disk is mountable on anything that can mount a compact disc. A common error is to copy the file to a writable compact disc, wich results in a cd with that single file on it as a file (provided it fits), which is not the same thing.
Audio CDs use a different data organization, they can not be mounted on a computer.