On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:47:31AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sunday 09 May 2010 03:54:43 Gary Kline wrote:
> > for some reason, i am having trouble burning 80-release. i did
> > get the oc-bsd dvd d/loaded And burned ... and my '05 thinkpad
> > recognized the dvd and installed. i have failed several times to
> > d/l the 8.0-R torrent. the checksums are valid. but usinng k3b
> > only 50% of the task is burned. is there some magic command or
> > procedure that i'm missing in burning the iso file from my
> > torrent dir to the dvd?
> >
> > also, how do i erase the several dvd discs that i would like to
> > reuse? there are dvd-rw.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html has a good
> explanation of how to write and erase DVDs.
>
Gaaaak. more than i needed to know! it isn't 'erase'; rather
'blank'; moreover, it seems that i can just overwrite the
dvd+rw.
my thinkpad optical device =is=, surprisingly, good. my old
5.3 install CD works, so if i torrent either the boot or the
8.0-'all' data, i should have something that boots and also
has all of 8.0-R. [[anybody know if i'm right/wrong/just-hoping?]]
i found the cvsup stuff on pc-bsd, and it looks very much
like my 7.3 files and directories here. has anybody tried to
install 8.0-release FreeBSD on top of pc-bsd? [in other
words: will it work, or am i likely to see smoke coming from
my boat-anchor?]
> --
> Bruce Cran
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