Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:45:44 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: flowers@users.sourceforge.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs Message-ID: <200501061145.j06BjiBZ025943@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan >> <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> >This is not intuitive, but you do not want to use the "make a >> >bootable CD" function of Sonic RecordNow! to make a bootable CD. >> >> On what basis is the above statement made if you haven't used >> Sonic RecordNow! ? It certainly looks to me as though the green >> button is the *only* way to burn an image (not counting making an >> exact copy of > >On the basis of your characterizing the little green button as being >"for making a bootable CD", and my understanding of that function in >alternative software. In short: I misunderstood. I apologize for >the misdirection. > Oh. That was because, if one places the cursor over the green button, a box appears temporarily bearing a line that says, "Click here to make this CD/DVD bootable". And, as noted in a different posting in this thread, that button brings up a browser panel for choosing an image file (but not displaying .iso files among the choices) to burn in making the bootable disk. 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 * **********************************************************************
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