From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 12:42:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C39614FF5 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22243; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:42:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Paul Nathan Puri Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I burn this disc1.iso? In-Reply-To: <19990612181701.A2413@office.office.ompages.com,> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I downloaded disc1.iso.gz. I did "gunzip disc1.iso.gz", then it became > disc1.iso. I simply mastered the file with xcdroast, then I burned the cd. > > The file on the cd is disc1.iso. When I tried to boot the cd it wouldn't > boot and simply booted the hard drive (my bios is configured to boot > ATAPI CDROM first). Invariably, I'm sure I have done something wrong here. > Anyone know what it is? Making bootable disks requires setup by the burning application. You needed to tell xcdroast to make /floppies/boot.flp the startup volume to present in El Torrito format. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message