From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 10:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C8937B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2GI9ls00224; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:09:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103161809.f2GI9ls00224@ptavv.es.net> To: "Doug Young" Cc: kstewart@urx.com, freebsd@sysmach.com, FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-install.iso In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:36:15 +1000." <08ba01c0ac51$12af9840$817e03cb@apana.org.au> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:09:47 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Doug Young" > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:36:15 +1000 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > I have Nero on one system but haven't tried it. I just built a couple > > of systems and added CD-R/RW to them. Each was different to see what > > they did. The only one I haven't tried is Nero. > > Its essentially similar to Adaptec, my problem with it & all the other CD > copy > apps is that the developers obviously thought that nobody would think of > actually burning ISOs so any possible way of doing that was hidden away > where nobody would find it. > > There is no question in my mind that Adaptec's software was much more > straight foreward than the other burners. The other's all had the logic but > you really > had to hunt to figure out what to do. EZ-CD Creator has a > tendancy to hang on my system after burning two or three CD's. None of > the others do that. I simply don't understand this. I wonder if people are working too hard at this. "iso" is normally a known file type to CD burning software under Windows. I download the iso (saving it to disk with the iso extension), drop a blank CD-RW in the drive, and double-click on the downloaded file icon. The Adaptec software fires up and I just tell it to burn. You might want to do a test run first, but it's very unlikely that you will have to reduce writing speed when burning an ISO image as the source disk is much faster than the burner and it's simply moving the data. About 5 or 10 minutes later, the CD is burned and I'm ready to use it. I'm told that Nero behaves in a very similar manner, but I have never tried it. I have used both Adaptec V3 and V4. I have not tried the newer V5, but I doubt it's changed. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message