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Date:      Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:30:37 -0400
From:      "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        Blaine Miller <bmiller@coastside.net>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: When is ISO 9660 NOT ISO 9660???
Message-ID:  <200208100130.37413.bts@babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <B979E81A.1186%bmiller@coastside.net>
References:  <B979E81A.1186%bmiller@coastside.net>

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On Saturday 10 August 2002 12:43 am, Blaine Miller wrote:
| Hi!
|
| I've all but given up trying to get this puppy worked around. I have ftp'd
| down the freeBSD ISO image files six ways to Sunday over the past few
| months and can NOT get a bootable CD from any of them.
|
| In a nutshell, I burn the image files on CD in my Apple Powerbook G4 667
| with the Internal CDROM/RW/DVDROM drive. I make sure it's formatted for
| ISO-9660 only, NOT HPFS/9660 as I had trouble with this "default" before.

Either default is wrong.  The downloaded ISOs are *already* ISO-9660 format; 
you need to burn them _as_is_ onto the disk without applying *any* file 
system to them whatsoever.

There should be some option to burn an existing ISO (or "disk image" or 
something like that) in your CD-RW software.  Use that.

What you did instead was to make an ISO filesystem out of the single file 
which consitutes the ISO file system.  This, of course, can't result in a 
bootable disk.

-- 
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   bts@babbleon.org (personal)
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