From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 17 15: 1:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0F4F37B718 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 45298 invoked by uid 1825); 17 Mar 2000 23:01:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Mar 2000 23:01:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:01:17 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: FreeBSD ISP List Subject: ISO images redux Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message