Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs Message-ID: <20050106015510.GA1778@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <200501060035.j060Zh7O014562@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200501060035.j060Zh7O014562@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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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: > > >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500 Parv <parv@pair.com> wrote: > >> > >> >in message <200501030936.j039arAx022411@mp.cs.niu.edu>, > >> >wrote Scott Bennett thusly... > >> >> > >> >> I've downloaded the following ISO image files: > >> >> > >> >> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso > >> >> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > >> >> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso > >> >> > >> >> I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows > >> >> XP Home's own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said > >> >> system, but did not get bootable CDs either way. > >> > > >> >First time i tried the software of same name unknown version (IBM > >> >ThinkPad T42, Windows XP Professional), i selected "Data Disc" > >> >and chose the ISO image. Well, it did do its job: i got the ISO > >> >image /file/ on the CD. > >> > > >> >After more poking around in the software interface, "Burn Image" > >> >or some such option was revealed under the heading of "Data Disc" > >> >or some such. And, that too did its job: i got the mini install > >> >ISO image on CD to boot with. > >> > > >> Thanks for the suggestion. I've now gone back and found the > >> little green button in Sonic RecordNow! for making a bootable CD. > >> I then tried it with each of the first two files noted above. The > >> CDs written via the green button do get a little farther than > >> before. In the earlier case, the machine barely glanced at the CD > >> before deciding to boot from the hard drive after all. The green > >> button CDs, instead, run far enough to display a message in the > >> upper left corner of the screen that says, "Missing operating > >> system", and then hang. > > > >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. -- Danny
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