From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 18:13:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6006C106566C for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 18:13:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F9B8FC17 for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 18:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o49IDR69057622; Sun, 9 May 2010 11:13:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 9 May 2010 11:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 11:13:26 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20100509181326.GA8362@thought.org> References: <20100509025440.GA5632@thought.org> <201005091047.32034.bruce@cran.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201005091047.32034.bruce@cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT,J_CHICKENPOX_32,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on ethic.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: magic cmd[s]?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 18:13:35 -0000 On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:47:31AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > 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. > Gaaaak. more than i needed to know! it isn't 'erase'; rather 'blank'; moreover, it seems that i can just overwrite the dvd+rw. my thinkpad optical device =is=, surprisingly, good. my old 5.3 install CD works, so if i torrent either the boot or the 8.0-'all' data, i should have something that boots and also has all of 8.0-R. [[anybody know if i'm right/wrong/just-hoping?]] i found the cvsup stuff on pc-bsd, and it looks very much like my 7.3 files and directories here. has anybody tried to install 8.0-release FreeBSD on top of pc-bsd? [in other words: will it work, or am i likely to see smoke coming from my boat-anchor?] > -- > Bruce Cran -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel