From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 13:36:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA2A16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:36:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC3443D1F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:36:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so27672wra for ; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:36:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=reMXh78ZHHZFE4qf9mxVYN3Ee2O7abWB0aNuJqjBASxZzAMIkFT3o+V9cShQHOet4XNa8OV/yeNHLd/sYdxNOccd7khxTBMykXBOmvQfVjfAy/gyqrt0d1CLJJ3aReLQzAjff30cTK7Il0jG1g5SWd89y5tZLWT6VeaFksXLEZc= Received: by 10.54.6.43 with SMTP id 43mr179385wrf; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:36:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 05:36:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:36:30 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: Scott Bennett In-Reply-To: <200501070831.j078VbPF021546@mp.cs.niu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200501070831.j078VbPF021546@mp.cs.niu.edu> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:36:31 -0000 On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:31:37 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett wrote: > On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister > wrote: > > >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan > >> wrote: > >> > >> >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> >This is not intuitive, but you do not want to use the "make a > >> >> >bootable CD" function of Sonic RecordNow! to make a bootable CD. > >> >> > >> >> On what basis is the above statement made if you haven't used > >> >> Sonic RecordNow! ? It certainly looks to me as though the green > >> >> button is the *only* way to burn an image (not counting making an > >> >> exact copy of > >> > > >> >On the basis of your characterizing the little green button as being > >> >"for making a bootable CD", and my understanding of that function in > >> >alternative software. In short: I misunderstood. I apologize for > >> >the misdirection. > >> > > >> Oh. That was because, if one places the cursor over the green > >> button, a box appears temporarily bearing a line that says, "Click > >> here to make this CD/DVD bootable". And, as noted in a different > >> posting in this thread, that button brings up a browser panel for > >> choosing an image file (but not displaying .iso files among the > >> choices) to burn in making the bootable disk. > > > >Just an additional note for clarity: If I understand - and I don't > >have the rest of the thread so I may be missing something - you want > >to make a bootable CD of one of the ISO images. > > > >In that case, you do NOT want to use any of the options on your local > >machine to create a bootable CD because the ISO image is already a > >bootable image. It needs merely to be written raw to the media. > > > >When your utility asks if you want to create a bootable CD, it is > >asking if you want it to add a boot record for it and the other pointers > >to the file to make it bootable. Since the FreeeBSD ISO already has > >that stuff in it, you don't want it done again. So, choose the options > >that just write the data image directly to the CD with no additions. > > > No, no. This is wrong. You missed the explanation I posted regarding > Sonic RecordNow!, as well as an earlier one by Robin Becker. The green > button is the only way to tell the application that the file(s) it is to > burn is/are image file(s), and it doesn't know that .iso files are a type > of image file, so it doesn't list them in its browser unless you tell it > to display *all* files in the chosen directory. Obviously, this Sonic RecordNow? software isn't working well for you. Have you considered any of the alternatives that burn isos without problems; Nero, Alcohol, Fireburner ? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate