From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 17 22:31:04 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E71FA86F19 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 22:31:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from relay10.netenterprise.net (relay10.netenterprise.net [66.180.133.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DED1C51 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 22:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) X-Envelope-From: noc@hdk5.net X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: From imail5.netenterprise.net (64.29.90.135) by relay10.netenterprise.net (MAILFOUNDRY) id 8er07L1qEeWjYwAl; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 22:37:53 -0000 (GMT) Received: from ponolei.intra.net [72.235.61.32] by IMAIL5.netenterprise.net with ESMTP (SMTPD-12.5.3.93) id 991a000586dcc540; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:30:55 -1000 Message-ID: <569C1621.4030404@hdk5.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:30:57 -1000 From: al plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Smith CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help with making DVD install disc.. 11 References: <20160114171111.C93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <5697FA71.7020706@hdk5.net> <20160117211655.N93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20160117211655.N93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 22:31:04 -0000 Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:43:45 -1000, al plant wrote: > > Aloha and Thanks Ian, > > > > My biggest problem is that I only have 2 working FreeBSD Desktops (FreeBSD 8) > > currently and the DVD CD had to be changed and I cant get either to work with > > burncd or DVD growisofs. > > I am going to change the CDR/DVD components to see if I can get one of them > > to burn a good disc with FreeBSD 11 or even 10.2 . > > > > I got Fiber optic service here on island last year and had to change some of > > my boxes to work with the new network. > > > > Maybe I have to wait untill the FreeBSD 11 RELEASE comes out. I get big > > media and in out errors when I try to create CD or DVD. > > > > Any ideas appreciated. > > I used burncd for years for backups and it never let me down but I > haven't used any optical media for ages, beyond ripping audio CDs. > > Well, 10.3 doesn't look far off, and at least the later RCs should have > packages for the DVD hopefully, early in March. Unless you specifically > need some features from 11, 10.3 should be an extended support release, > and upgrading to 11 from there should be straightforward anyway. I'm > planning to update my stable/9 system to 10.3 sometime after the dust > settles .. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/schedule.html > > Otherwise, can your boxes boot from USB memsticks? I made a version > of Darren Pilgrim's dvd1_to_memstick.sh > that I've used successfully a few times, if that might be helpful. > > My adaptation was for 8.2-RELEASE, whose makefs had no -o label option > as used in 9+, so I hardwired its /etc/fstab to boot from /dev/da0a. > If your boxes are at 8.4 you could check makefs(8) for that option; if > it was merged to 8.[34] then Darren's script should work for you as is. > > One advantage of that method is that you can have it pause in the middle > to add/change anything you want to the unpacked dvd1.iso contents before > proceeding to make the memstick image. > > Of course that's all moot for boxes too old to boot from USB devices .. > > cheers, Ian > > > Thanks Ian, I'll look into trying that. I appreciate your help and ideas. ~ Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 ~ Supporting FreeBSD - UNIX Computer O/S email: noc@hdk5.net email: alplant.att.net ."All that's really worth doing is what we do for others" - Lewis Carrol