Download ISO files directly to a CD,DVD,BLU-RAY

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 22, 2010

[ Thanks to Pétur
Ingi Egilsson
for this link. ]

“It is possible to download .iso files directly onto a
cddvdlu-ray disk.

“/dev/shm is a directory found on Debian & RedHat based
distributions. (Please let me know if you find it on dists as well)
/dev/shm is a dynamic RAM disk, meaning it’s size will grow and
shrink with the size of the files placed there.

“The following process is especially ideal for users running
Linux from RAM or small USB sticks. No drive space will be used
during the process & only a very small amount of RAM is
used.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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