Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:29:47 +0100 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: burning an FBSD iso image using MS/Windows Message-ID: <20020430152947.GA14709@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEDBCPAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> References: <200204290601.g3T61ha08467@lv.raad.tartu.ee> <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEDBCPAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Easy CD Creator and CDRWIN can both burn ISOs properly from memory, read the manuals for more info as I can't remember how off the top of my head On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:00:29AM -0400, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > Could you please expand on this subject. > What is the manufacture of your cd r/w device? > What software do you use to write an iso image file so it gets > expanded into multiple files on the cd? > Do you know of any free software that will write iso image > to cd using MS/Windows? > > I have an HP 9500 and the software that came with it does not > write iso image files. I even emailed the HP tech support and they > said they know of no MS/Windows cd writer that writes iso image files > as expanded files. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Toomas Aas [mailto:toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:00 AM > To: Joe & Fhe Barbish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Hello > > Hello! > > > The FBSD 4 CD set is available from many FBSD FTP sites. Many people think > > they can just download the ISO image, burn it to CD and away they go. Well > > here a news flash for you, it's not that easy. First of all the ISO image > is > > not supported in the MS/Windows world. Sure you can download it and burn > it > > to an CD using MS/Windows, but you end up with a data disk, not an > bootable > > CD, which it has to be to install from. > > What??? > > I have downloaded and burned several ISO images (3.2, 3.4, 4.4, 4.5) > using MS Windows and they have always turned out right (i.e. > bootable). > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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