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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:01:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      <up@3.am>
To:        FreeBSD ISP List <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   ISO images redux
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003171748290.43798-100000@richard2.pil.net>

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After trashing yet a few more CDs trying to make bootable -STABLE
installation CDs, I've come to realize there's something very fundemental
I just don't get about these ISO images.

If I burn a CD on a Mac using Toast 4.0 deluxe (which Adaptec assures me
is capable of creating bootable ISO-9660 CDROMs) using ISO-9660 as teh
format, a single file is created on the cdrom called "3.4-install.iso",
which is essentially useless. Of course it won't boot, and if you mount it
and look at it, you still just see that single file. If I take my
3.2-RELEASE CD, it boots, and if I mount it, I see a normal directory
structure with all the normal files and subdirectories that I would expect
to see.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in *buying* FreeBSD from time to time to
support the ongoing development, hence I bought the 3.2 Power Pak last
year, and just pre-ordered 4.0-RELEASE for whenever it ships.  But I'd
REALLY like to be able to create my own bootable -STABLE or -RELEASE
installation CDs.  What the fsck am I doing wrong???

TIA,

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am							    http://3.am
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