From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 22:07:22 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 561BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:07:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDEC43D46 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:07:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 10111 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2005 22:07:21 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jan 2005 22:07:21 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4D83284; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:07:20 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Scott Bennett References: <200501271852.j0RIqQ9t010411@mp.cs.niu.edu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 27 Jan 2005 17:07:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200501271852.j0RIqQ9t010411@mp.cs.niu.edu> Message-ID: <44is5imspz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: RayM@cableone.net 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:07:22 -0000 Scott Bennett writes: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:30:50 -0600 "Ray Marshall" > wrote: > > >Did you figure out how to get an install cd from the ISO image file? I have a new dell with RecordNow and I can't figure it out, but, I need to do the same thing. Thanks. > > Sonic RecordNow! apparently does not recognize .iso files as image files, > so it cannot produce a valid, bootable disk. I ran into this two or three > weeks ago. I already had a 5.2.1 system installed on the same machine, so > I was able to copy the image file from the Windows XP file system into a > FreeBSD UFS file system. From there I used burncd to produce a bootable disk. > One problem I ran into, however, was that the "fixate" step always encountered > some error with the two large .iso files when burning a CD-R, although it > worked fine with the "minimal installation" image file. Burning to a CD-RW > worked properly. I still don't know why burning a large image to a CD-R was > a problem when burning it to a CD-RW was not a problem. > In short, Sonic RecordNow! is useless for ISO image files, but you may > find some workaround. There are also other disk-burning packages around for > Windows XP, but that would mean spending more money on a package you might only > use once. :-] The product specs for RecordNow claim that it has full support for ISO file images. You probably need to trick it in some way; maybe by changing the file extension or some such silliness.