Burning and ISO

Alright, yes, I used the search feature. I wasn’t understanding any of them. The whole ISO and mounting thing is completely new to me.
Okay, one – what is mounting? I think it fools the computer so you don’t have to insert a CD or something…?
Two – help!
Alright, so I downloaded Aydrian’s Bioshock. I have this ISO. I want to burn Bioshock to a DVD so I it doesn’t take up space on my computer and can be transported. How would I go about doing this?
I burned the ISO to a disc successfully using Nero Express. Only… when I went to the disc it the ISO was just the install files. I want the installed game on there…
When I run the install files from disc/from HD… it installs it to my computer. I want a burned copy onto my disc!
What am I doing wrong? Thanks
Answer #1
Imgburn to burn them , or daemon tools lite or magic disc (freeware) to mount em.
maybe you didnt burn it as an image.
Answer #2
(didn’t understand any of that)
I need to be able to understand what’s going on here. So burning or mounting – what’s the difference, what comes first, what do they do?
Sorry, I’m just a total newbie to the ISO/burning/mounting scene.
Answer #3
Mounting is the process of adding a virtual cd rom drive , programmes like the afformentioned daemon tools or magic disc , you select the iso file from the programmes interface and mount it so for all intents and purposes its like inserting the cd , burning the iso image can be achived by burning the iso with a programme like imgburn.
Answer #4
there are 2 ways which both poster have mentioned above me. First is buring the iso image to a disk, and iso is a container like avi, mkv, nrg, bin etc. Well to put it in simpler terms think of it this way the iso file is virtual right? so think of it like a virtual DVD disk if you get what i mean or a image of the actual disk. Now what you with the iso is to transfer the image to a physical disk to do that you have to keep it the same as it is in it virtual file. In like nero you will see a option that say burn image to disk, what that will do is take the virtual disk and make it physical. in imgburn you have to do the same by click “write image file to disk” then browse for the iso and burn it.Again it will keep the EXACT format that the iso has and just make it physical, an iso if something you cannot touch but its the same as a physical disk.
Second option is to install a virtual drive by using damon tools, damon tools with add another drive to you my computers area even though you do not have a second drive. Then you just use daemon tools to mount the disk (mount = like putting the physical disk in you dvd tray) and run it like a normal disk. I say go this route so you do not waste time/DVD for burn iso you may only need once.
hope this helps, i know i when it in a lot of detail
mind the grammer its 2am here
Answer #5
It sounds like what you have done is quite correct…
But to play the game it needs to install all or part of it from the DVD..
It can’t just play from the DVD…Most games work like that..
Answer #6
Ah… okay. Think I’m getting it now. Thanks for the help everyone!