From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 9:57:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBD037B41B for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g3UGrIU32351; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:53:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3CCECD35.1040302@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:58:29 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Dick Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , Toomas Aas , FBSDQ Subject: Re: burning an FBSD iso image using MS/Windows References: <200204290601.g3T61ha08467@lv.raad.tartu.ee> <20020430152947.GA14709@irrelevant.org> 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 Simon Dick wrote: > Easy CD Creator and CDRWIN can both burn ISOs properly from memory, > read the manuals for more info as I can't remember how off the top of > my head Make sure you're not using a CD-RW blank. Some windows-based CD software won't burn ISOs properly on rewritable CDs. Whether this is a bug or feature is beyond me (I'm not that versed in how CD burning works) it's just been my experience. Burning bootable FreeBSD CDs on CD-Rs has always worked for me, whatever software I use (usually cdrecord, but occasionally different windows programs as well) > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > >>Could you please expand on this subject. >>What is the manufacture of your cd r/w device? >>What software do you use to write an iso image file so it gets >>expanded into multiple files on the cd? >>Do you know of any free software that will write iso image >>to cd using MS/Windows? >> >>I have an HP 9500 and the software that came with it does not >>write iso image files. I even emailed the HP tech support and they >>said they know of no MS/Windows cd writer that writes iso image files >>as expanded files. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Toomas Aas [mailto:toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee] >>Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:00 AM >>To: Joe & Fhe Barbish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: RE: Hello >> >>Hello! >> >> >>>The FBSD 4 CD set is available from many FBSD FTP sites. Many people think >>>they can just download the ISO image, burn it to CD and away they go. Well >>>here a news flash for you, it's not that easy. First of all the ISO image >>> >>is >> >>>not supported in the MS/Windows world. Sure you can download it and burn >>> >>it >> >>>to an CD using MS/Windows, but you end up with a data disk, not an >>> >>bootable >> >>>CD, which it has to be to install from. >>> >>What??? >> >>I have downloaded and burned several ISO images (3.2, 3.4, 4.4, 4.5) >>using MS Windows and they have always turned out right (i.e. >>bootable). >>-- >>Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ >>* How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work? >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message