From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 05:43:28 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 70B2F16A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:43:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.145.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5B043D46 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:43:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.13.2/8.13.2/d) with ESMTP id j045hQws019821; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:43:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:43:26 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200501040543.j045hQk0019820@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: dave@horsfall.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 05:43:28 -0000 On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:49:26 +1100 (EST) Dave Horsfall wrote: >On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> 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. I also tried mounting the Windows >> partition onto /mnt under 5.2.1 and using the burncd command to burn the >> first file onto a CD-RW and, later, the second file onto a CD-RW. >> Neither attempt gave me a bootable CD. > >What, exactly, was your "burncd" command? Using 4.10 to create 5.3 CDs, >this "just worked", using write-once CDs: > >burncd -f /dev/acd0c data /var/tmp/cd.iso fixate > As root, I did the following (assuming I remember the Windows path correctly:-): mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt cd /mnt/Documents\ and\ Settings/Scott/My\ Documents/CD-R burncd -f /dev/acd0 data 5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso fixate and later: burncd -f /dev/acd0 data 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso fixate Note that there is no partition letter following the major and minor devices in /dev/acd0 (i.e., no partition 'c' that traditionally encompasses an entire drive in BSD). It is the only name in /dev pertaining to the CD/DVD burner. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************