Date: 27 Jan 2005 17:07:20 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs Message-ID: <44is5imspz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200501271852.j0RIqQ9t010411@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200501271852.j0RIqQ9t010411@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> writes: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:30:50 -0600 "Ray Marshall" <RayM@cableone.net> > wrote: > > >Did you figure out how to get an install cd from the ISO image file? I have a new dell with RecordNow and I can't figure it out, but, I need to do the same thing. Thanks. > > Sonic RecordNow! apparently does not recognize .iso files as image files, > so it cannot produce a valid, bootable disk. I ran into this two or three > weeks ago. I already had a 5.2.1 system installed on the same machine, so > I was able to copy the image file from the Windows XP file system into a > FreeBSD UFS file system. From there I used burncd to produce a bootable disk. > One problem I ran into, however, was that the "fixate" step always encountered > some error with the two large .iso files when burning a CD-R, although it > worked fine with the "minimal installation" image file. Burning to a CD-RW > worked properly. I still don't know why burning a large image to a CD-R was > a problem when burning it to a CD-RW was not a problem. > In short, Sonic RecordNow! is useless for ISO image files, but you may > find some workaround. There are also other disk-burning packages around for > Windows XP, but that would mean spending more money on a package you might only > use once. :-] The product specs for RecordNow claim that it has full support for ISO file images. You probably need to trick it in some way; maybe by changing the file extension or some such silliness.
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