Creating An Installation Disc Via ISO Image

[tnt2]

There are a few different parts to my question.
First I'm trying to create an installation disc for the program "gparted".
Im trying to do this by burning a downloaded ISO image to a CD-R disc. My primary computer has a DVD writer. Do I specifically need a CD writer to burn the image porperly to a CD?
Also, is this the best way to create an installation disc for this program?
I have 2 different ISO images.

I am running a laptop on Linux Mint Cinnamon v13, and I have used Synaptic Package Manager to download the packages gparted and libparted0debian1. I used the program APTonCD to convert these two packages to an ISO file.

I also downloaded a 191+mb ISO image which is supposedly used to create an installation disc for the Gparted program.

Since I am burning these images to non-rewritable discs (CD-RW seems to have gone out of production) I am trying to make sure I get it right. Would either of these two ISO files be more likely to succeed? And am I going about it the right way? I am on dial-up internet so I can't download the program straight to the PC that needs it.

Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[Flemur]

First I'm trying to create an installation disc for the program "gparted".

Why? To install gparted on a linux system, or to make a bootable CD/DVD 5than can run gparted ?

If the former, why not install it with "software/package manager", apt, or synaptic?

If the latter, here's the iso for a bootable gparted CD:
http://gparted.org/livecd.php

I also downloaded a 191+mb ISO image which is supposedly used to create an installation disc for the Gparted program.

Named this: gparted-live-0.19.1-1-i486.iso ?

Would either of these two ISO files be more likely to succeed?

I don't think you said what the other ISO file was.

At any rate, use the LiveCD ISO file (if that's what you want), open a file browser, rt-click on the ISO file, open it with whatever burner shows up, write it to CD/DVD. It should be bootable.

Edit:
I am on dial-up internet so I can't download the program straight to the PC that needs it.

If you just want to install gparted on a computer running linux but without internet, download and copy the .deb file(s) - along with the required ones the other computer might not have.

[Spearmint2]

If you have a DVD burner, it will also do CD's.

[Mute Ant]

''And am I going about it the right way?'' Sort of, in the right area anyway.

The ISO image gparted-live is a whole system for running the computer without needing the hard drive. You partition or repair a hard disk and then leave it alone. Every Live-CD or Live-DVD distribution includes gparted or something that does the same job; Mint if you use DVD-R or Linux-Lite if you use CD-R.

DEB packages, like ''gparted_0.16.2-1_i386.deb'' are for fitting a particular version of a program into a running system. Lots of installers explicitly remove gparted from the finished system; they don't want users playing with it. So while you can install it as an expert-tool, and copy it to other computers, you probably shouldn't.

DVD-Drives use red light and CD-Drives use infra-red light, so technically writing a CD-R does use different hardware. Fortunately DVD-Drives always include a CD laser, sharing the same optics, so from the outside it can read/write either.

CD-RW went the same way as Floppy Disks. For persistent read-mostly storage, flash memory is better and cheaper---fifty pence per GB in the UK.

[ace_N_kelly]

I think that gparted already there on all Linux mint iso...
So just boot on "test mode" and run gparted