From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 10:08:29 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 4109E16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:08:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmailm1.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm1.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D2943D31 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:08:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from modem-3873.karuhiruhi.dialup.pol.co.uk ([81.78.143.33]) by cmailm1.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1ClP8V-0003TC-8U for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:08:27 +0000 Message-ID: <41D9199B.6070001@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:08:27 +0000 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions References: <200501030936.j039arAx022411@mp.cs.niu.edu> <20050103094621.GA8348@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050103094621.GA8348@nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:08:29 -0000 dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 03 Jan Scott Bennett wrote: > > >> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso >> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso >> >>I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows XP Home's own >>facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said system, but did not get >>bootable CDs either way. > > > Strange. Every decent burning program on windows (cdrwin, nero) has an > option to burn iso _images_ to a cdr(w). Because it is an image(!) the > cdr(w) will be bootable (it's an image of a bootable cd). > Sonic RecordNow 7.10 as given away by Dell doesn't have an option to burn ISO images. Absolutely stupid, made me furious. -- Robin Becker