From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 17:29:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 906DA16A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:29:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2541A43D53 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:29:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 3288 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2005 17:29:49 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Oct 2005 17:29:49 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E46392D; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:29:48 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "Dave" References: <000301c5ca95$ef07f0a0$0900a8c0@satellite> <44irwazikc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <002001c5ca98$f27d12d0$0900a8c0@satellite> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Oct 2005 13:29:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <002001c5ca98$f27d12d0$0900a8c0@satellite> Message-ID: <448xx6zh83.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning multisession cd's and bootable windows isos X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:29:51 -0000 "Dave" writes: > Thanks for your reply. I will give your crib sheet a go and if it > is as good as it sounds i will like it! Do you have any other info > along those lines, not necessarily on that subject but fast tips like > that? If so i'd be interested. The official FreeBSD documentation is excellent, and includes a section (in the FreeBSD Handbook) on how to duplicate a CD-ROM. http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#IMAGING-CD My crib sheet was really only for my own use, so it assumes my shell. csh-type shells would need slightly different syntax. I have some other tricks of my own, on my web site at < http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/systuff/ > > When you say grab all the tracks do you mean use dd when burning? I did mean that. But I'm not sure it's necessary; using the raw disk device *should* get all of the data on the disk. > Currently i use windows copy to get everything, i've got hidden files > and os files turned on so i get all the files, i have never tried it For a bootable CD, getting all of the files isn't enough. Some of the data you need isn't in a file on the CD filesystem. > using unix for the copy, then hooking up to the share crossnetwork, > doing the work, and then burning, do you know anyone who has done > this, i'd like not to make a deaddisk if i can help it. I recommend using CD-RW disks when experimenting, and then you don't worry about wasting the burn. Or just buy enough super-cheapie blanks that you don't worry about wasting them. Good luck.