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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:49:26 +1100 (EST)
From:      Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.61.0501032144420.12968@dave.horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <200501030936.j039arAx022411@mp.cs.niu.edu>
References:  <200501030936.j039arAx022411@mp.cs.niu.edu>

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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

-- Dave



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