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Date:      Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:54:16 -0600 (CST)
From:      John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>
To:        Dragon Knight <dragonknight@dtgnet.com>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Steve <bitpack@erols.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 CD Images
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981113185224.5047A-100000@adam.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <004801be0f59$2369e100$0100005a@dragon.dtgnet.com>

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> >On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Steve wrote:
> >> Okay.. I've downloaded the 3.0 '.img' cd images..
> >Where did you get those from?
> I downloaded them from.
> ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.2/FreeBSD/incoming/iso-3.0/
> >> What dos/windows program would I use to create a cd out of them?
> >They're binary images; assumably you know your writer software well enough
> >to burn a binary image.
> Adaptec Easy CD Creator which comes with a lot of the CD-R's I have
> seen shipped will only burn it's own little type of images, and .iso's.  As
> these
> cd Images are .img files i am not sure whether they use the same internal
> format or whatever it may be that would make them compatible/incompatible
> perhaps you can burn them with EZCD.  I fear that it may not read the
> RockRidge
> extensions correctly and truncate the filenames to standard iso-9660 8.3
> format.


Ez cd creator / Deluxe will not work.  I tried even with the new
patches....;(


> But i haven't tried it yet...    Perhaps Gear or CDRWIN, which i hear are
> better

Haven't tried these...

> than EZCD, will be able to do it, i do not know for sure.
> But what i plan on doing tonight or tomorrow is perform a net-install of
> version 3.0
> (because i have an IDE CD-R) and making the CD using FreeBSD, because then
> I know it will work.

That works

> Anyway, I doubt i've helped much but ya never do know.
> Samuel Greear

John


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