Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:36:30 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs Message-ID: <bc5b638505010705366018fdfe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501070831.j078VbPF021546@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200501070831.j078VbPF021546@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:31:37 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> > wrote: > > >> 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. > > > >Just an additional note for clarity: If I understand - and I don't > >have the rest of the thread so I may be missing something - you want > >to make a bootable CD of one of the ISO images. > > > >In that case, you do NOT want to use any of the options on your local > >machine to create a bootable CD because the ISO image is already a > >bootable image. It needs merely to be written raw to the media. > > > >When your utility asks if you want to create a bootable CD, it is > >asking if you want it to add a boot record for it and the other pointers > >to the file to make it bootable. Since the FreeeBSD ISO already has > >that stuff in it, you don't want it done again. So, choose the options > >that just write the data image directly to the CD with no additions. > > > No, no. This is wrong. You missed the explanation I posted regarding > Sonic RecordNow!, as well as an earlier one by Robin Becker. The green > button is the only way to tell the application that the file(s) it is to > burn is/are image file(s), and it doesn't know that .iso files are a type > of image file, so it doesn't list them in its browser unless you tell it > to display *all* files in the chosen directory. Obviously, this Sonic RecordNow? software isn't working well for you. Have you considered any of the alternatives that burn isos without problems; Nero, Alcohol, Fireburner ? -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate
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