Re: burn 4.8 bootable cd's from macintosh?

From: blah blah (blah_at_blah.com)
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:15:11 -0400

In article <patpro.pouet-7D097B.09554924092003@news.wanadoo.fr>, patpro
<patpro.pouet@archange.fr> wrote:

> In article <patpro-9D4D92.23503023092003@biggoron.nerim.net>,
> patpro <patpro@elena.patpro.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <230920031710053362%blah@blah.com>,
> > blah blah <blah@blah.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I am trying to burn cd's from the 4.8 images from a macintosh and
> > > the cd's that I am burning don't seem to be bootable. I can boot the pc
> > > off of a Win XP disk, so it appears that the problem is with the c d's
> > > I am burning...
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what the trick is to making boot FreeBSD disks that
> > > are bootable from a macintosh?
> >
> > I always burn my FreeBSD iso on Mac, and they're always bootable.
> > I use Toast to burn the .iso file. The important thing is to *never*
> > mount this iso image on the desktop of the Mac, if you do this you'll
> > probabely have to re-download the iso.
>
>
> Ok, now I'm in front of Toast, so I can be more precise :
>
> use the drop-down menu of the Toast window called "Other" (there is
> "Data", "Music", "Copy" and "Other"), choose "Disk Image" from that
> menu. Ensure your .iso is ok (do not mount it in Toast, and verify its
> checksum). Then drop your .iso file on the Toast window. It should then
> read something like : (my example is with QNX iso)
>
> Disk Image
> ----------------------------------
> qnxnc621.iso
> 233.3 MB ISO 9660 CD-ROM
>
> [Select...] [ Mount ]
>
> then you press "Record", you choose to make no session, and use a
> burning speed lower than the max of your CD-burner (I always do this,
> and I *never* spoil cd's).

I had done this, except for burniong at a lower speed...I will try and
burn from a lower speed and see what happens

thanks for the post though, I appreciate it.

>
> Of course you should ensure your PC is able to boot from the CD (you can
> unplug the HD to be sure, and check the BIOS so that CDROM is first
> device to boot from), you also may want to test your freshly burned CD
> on another PC, just in case. Some low-end CD drive are unable to boot
> properly from some home-made CD.

I will try that too, we have a few other pc's in the lab and I will
check on them...

>
> patpro

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