Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:30:09 GMT From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/155732: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz is corrupt or otherwise unusable with MS Windows XP applications. Message-ID: <201103222130.p2MLU876009214@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/155732; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: "Edward T. Mischanko" <etm1962@hotmail.com> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/155732: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz is corrupt or otherwise unusable with MS Windows XP applications. Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:22:57 +0000 >After downloading [ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2 >/FreeBSD->8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz], >I am unable to open the image with WinRAR or burn the installation DVD >with Nero9. This is contrary to the 8.1 release which works fine with >these two applications. Please post a repaired image and/or advise which >Windows applications can be used to make the DVD. DVD images for the previous release were compressed with gzip. In an attempt to save disk space and network traffic, they are now compressed with xz, which uses lzma compression. I don't know what problem(s) you experienced, because you didn't provide specific information, but I think that you are having trouble because WinRAR (according to the description at the WInRAR homepage) doesn't support xz-compressed files. Try using one of the following instead: xzutils: http://tukaani.org/xz/ (Windows binaries: http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.1-windows.zip ) or peazip: http://www.peazip.org/ (These are not the only packages that will do the job, of course: there are others.) After decompressing the dvd image, you should be able to burn it to optical media as before with your favorite burning program -- Nero, or, for example, a Windows binary package of cdrtools: http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?CDRTOOLS_with_DVD_Support b.
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