Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:41:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: "Barrington, Mark" <mark.barrington@dsto.defence.gov.au>, "'freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ISO images to BOOTABLE cd's ? how to Message-ID: <3AE55876.A5AD6654@urx.com> References: <2149A0BABC77D311AF890090274E00B203875462@salex005.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20010424105147.C66317@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:16:02PM +0930, Barrington, Mark wrote: > > What I would really like to know, and would really appreciate having > > explained in a followable form is just how can I convert the ISO images that > > I can download from the site into BOOTABLE CD's. Just how would I do this > > on a typical Windows machine equiped with a CD burner and say Adaptec's > > EAsyCD version 3.51? > > Good question. Of course, most of the FreeBSD developers don't run > Windows, and of the ones that do, few of them probably have access to > the same hardware and software you are using. > > I'm guessing that the Adaptec software probably has a 'raw' mode, or > similar, where it will take a file you give it and write it directly to > the CD, without trying to add any extra bits itself. However, without > the software manual in front of me I couldn't tell you exactly which > menu options to chose. > > What would be really useful is if you could > > a) Spend the time to discover exactly how to do this. > > b) Write up instructions on how you did it (including screenshots, if > possible). > > c) Submit those instructions to the FreeBSD Doc. Project, so we can > put them on the website. You really have to use mkisofs to build the bootable. I haven't looked at it but I think the rock ridge format is really important. You just create an iso that you can burn a CD with any of the windows CD burners. Kent > > Thanks, > > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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