Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:21:59 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: broly@bigfoot.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 installation Message-ID: <20020819082159.GA74487@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20020819054117.59510.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020819054117.59510.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:41:17AM +0100, Nes Liwanag typed: > i'm asking for the supposedly volume label > V-O-L-U-M-E L-A-B-E-L No need to shout. The label is part of the ISO image. You shouldn't have to specify it. Don't extract the iso file, just burn it directly. Otherwise you will lose some data, like this label, and you won't be able to boot from it. > > can anyone else help me? > thanks > > Note: forwarded message attached. > > ===== > *-------------------------* > | Ernesto V. Liwanag, Jr. | > | PLDT-CTID (632) 8873194 | > | broly@bigfoot.com | > *-------------------------* > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > X-Apparently-To: nesctid@yahoo.com via -40.-120.-127.-115; 18 Aug 2002 21:46:05 -0700 (PDT) > X-Track: 1: 100 > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:45:53 +1000 > From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> > To: broly@bigfoot.com > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 installation > In-Reply-To: <20020819041227.81143.qmail@web21301.mail.yahoo.com> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:12:27AM +0100, Nes Liwanag wrote: > > i've just downloaded the file: > > > > 4.6-install.iso > > > > from planetmirror.com > > which is the 4.6 release of FreeBSD > > > > i have a question about burning this ISO image onto a CD: > > what should be the volume label of the CD for this ISO image? > > The file you've downloaded is a one-on-one mirror of a CD image. > That means, don't drag-or-drop it or you'll end up with a file > called 4.6-install.iso on your CD instead of the directory layout > you expect(*). Tell your software to treat the file as an ISO image > and you'll end up with the directory layout you expect. > > (*) Don't laugh, already two people I know have had this happen to them. > > Edwin > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php > bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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