Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-local_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 01/27/05

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    To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 2005 17:07:20 -0500

    Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> writes:

    > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:30:50 -0600 "Ray Marshall" <RayM@cableone.net>
    > wrote:
    >
    > >Did you figure out how to get an install cd from the ISO image file? I have a new dell with RecordNow and I can't figure it out, but, I need to do the same thing. Thanks.
    >
    > Sonic RecordNow! apparently does not recognize .iso files as image files,
    > so it cannot produce a valid, bootable disk. I ran into this two or three
    > weeks ago. I already had a 5.2.1 system installed on the same machine, so
    > I was able to copy the image file from the Windows XP file system into a
    > FreeBSD UFS file system. From there I used burncd to produce a bootable disk.
    > One problem I ran into, however, was that the "fixate" step always encountered
    > some error with the two large .iso files when burning a CD-R, although it
    > worked fine with the "minimal installation" image file. Burning to a CD-RW
    > worked properly. I still don't know why burning a large image to a CD-R was
    > a problem when burning it to a CD-RW was not a problem.
    > In short, Sonic RecordNow! is useless for ISO image files, but you may
    > find some workaround. There are also other disk-burning packages around for
    > Windows XP, but that would mean spending more money on a package you might only
    > use once. :-]

    The product specs for RecordNow claim that it has full support for ISO
    file images. You probably need to trick it in some way; maybe by
    changing the file extension or some such silliness.
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