Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:30:57 -1000 From: al plant <noc@hdk5.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help with making DVD install disc.. 11 Message-ID: <569C1621.4030404@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <20160117211655.N93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.97.1452254402.51970.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20160114171111.C93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <5697FA71.7020706@hdk5.net> <20160117211655.N93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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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 <http://pastebin.com/fzgVaCgW>; > 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
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