From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 9 5:28:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052DA37B401; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 05:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp10.wxs.nl (smtp10.wxs.nl [195.121.6.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1FE43F93; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 05:28:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from 192.168.31.50 (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp10.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 1 (built Aug 19 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HBH004YBHELY4@smtp10.wxs.nl>; Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:27:58 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:24:23 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff Subject: Re: A huge THANK YOU!!!!! In-reply-to: <200303081427.19846.kstewart@owt.com> To: Kent Stewart , Bill Moran Cc: scott mcclellan , 'Nigel Soon' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200303091424.23292.akruijff@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <000001c2e4f5$11adf9d0$4b944094@mooeymachine> <3E6A05B4.5000104@potentialtech.com> <200303081427.19846.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday 08 March 2003 23:27, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 07:01 am, Bill Moran wrote: > > akruijff@dds.nl wrote: > > > Citeren Bill Moran : > > >>scott mcclellan wrote: > > >>>Was there anything about ISO imaging anywhere that I just missed > > >>> or slipped over without actually reading? I didn't notice > > >>> anything on the FreeBSD site or handbook. > > >> > > >>Unfortunately, I think this is one of those things that it's just > > >>_assumed_ that everybody knows. I've never seen a good > > >> explanation, anywhere of what an iso is and how it should be > > >> handled. > > > > > > If you mean making your own iso image then have a look at "Making > > > Customized Bootable FreeBSD CD/Floppies". As to buring it. I use > > > the same approce as the author of this. I use a Windows computer. > > > > > > :o > > > > That's my point. If you want to know how to create your own CDs > > and build bootable CDs and things like that, there are articles > > everywhere. However, if you're _very_ new and just want to burn an > > iso that you've downloaded, there's no basic introduction to what > > you're doing and how to go about it. > > I'm not sure what is missing here. All of the cdburners that I am > aware of have the ability to burn iso's. I went through one time and > listed where the capability was found on the Windows based ones that > I had used. I have standardized on Nero 5.5 and finding how to burn > an iso image with Nero is one of the more dificult. You almost have > to read the FAQ on their web page. On the rest of the Windows > burners, you can almost double click the *.iso file and it will bring > your CD-ROM burner program up in the burn-image mode. > > The man page for burncd in the examples at the bottom tells you that > the file written to a data CD is an iso image. It even points you to > mkisofs, which is used to make the iso image. > I just saw that the freebsd handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook) has some notes on this under the title: Creating and Using Optical Media (CDs & DVDs) -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message