Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:37:02 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: dave@horsfall.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs Message-ID: <200501061137.j06Bb2XT025823@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Many thanks go to Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>, who wrote the
winning tip on Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:14:24 +1100 (EST):
>On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>> As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path
>> correctly:-):
>>
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt
>
>[...]
>
>Try copying the file to a local BSD file-system; the NTFS semantics could
>be getting in the way. Also try write-once media, if you can, as I've
>occasionally had difficulties with rewriteable media.
>
This appears to have been the ticket. I tried it first with the bootonly
image, which made a bootable CD-RW. After testing its bootability, I then
tried it with the disc1 image, which also worked and did boot okay. So I now
have the disks I need as CD-RWs.
However, I would prefer to have them as CD-Rs, but ran into a little
problem. The bootonly image went onto a CD-R just fine, and the CD-R did
boot right. However, at the very end of burning the disc1 image to a CD-R,
I got the following message.
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error
I tried it again in case it were a fluke, but got the same result. The CD-R
appears to boot okay, but I don't know whether the entire content of the CD-R
is intact. Would I run into problems with files physically near the end of
the written part of the CD-R? The disc2 image did the same thing. If someone
can explain why both images went onto CD-RWs just fine, but got the error
during fixation on CD-Rs, I'd like to see it.
Anyway, thanks to all who responded to my plea for help. I can now move
forward another inch or two toward (I hope) a usable FreeBSD system. It just
kills me to have this Inspiron XPS going mostly to waste so far, but maybe 5.3
will do what 5.2.1 couldn't. :-}
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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