From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 15:44: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BF137B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E03C43E4A for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:44:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15741; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:43:57 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC311BC.1090301@owt.com> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:43:56 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Holmlund Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Holmlund wrote: > I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned > wouldn't boot my machine. > > It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ > 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Maxell > 650MB/74 minute CD. That did the trick. > > Any explanation as to why this is so would be appreciated. It may have > nothing to do with FreeBSD, I realize. The drive in my Server is a Matshita > DVD, I believe. I burned the CDs on a Win2K machine with Adaptec Easy CD > Creator 4.05. Some CDROM drives don't recognize the 700MB media as a CD. Yours apparently is one of them. Kent > > Thanks. > > Steve Holmlund > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message