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Subject: Re: magic cmd[s]??
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On Sunday 09 May 2010 03:54:43 Gary Kline wrote:
> for some reason, i am having trouble burning 80-release.  i did
> get the oc-bsd dvd d/loaded And burned ... and my '05 thinkpad
> recognized the dvd and installed.  i have failed several times to
> d/l the 8.0-R torrent.  the checksums are valid.  but usinng k3b
> only 50% of the task is burned.  is there some magic command or
> procedure that i'm missing in burning the iso file from my
> torrent dir to the dvd?
> 
> also, how do i erase the several dvd discs that i would like to
> reuse?  there are dvd-rw.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html has a good 
explanation of how to write and erase DVDs.

-- 
Bruce Cran