On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:36:30 -0600 Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:31:37 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan >> >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >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. >> >> > >> >> Oh. That was because, if one places the cursor over the green >> >> button, a box appears temporarily bearing a line that says, "Click >> >> here to make this CD/DVD bootable". And, as noted in a different >> >> posting in this thread, that button brings up a browser panel for >> >> choosing an image file (but not displaying .iso files among the >> >> choices) to burn in making the bootable disk. >> > >> >Just an additional note for clarity: If I understand - and I don't >> >have the rest of the thread so I may be missing something - you want >> >to make a bootable CD of one of the ISO images. >> > >> >In that case, you do NOT want to use any of the options on your local >> >machine to create a bootable CD because the ISO image is already a >> >bootable image. It needs merely to be written raw to the media. >> > >> >When your utility asks if you want to create a bootable CD, it is >> >asking if you want it to add a boot record for it and the other pointers >> >to the file to make it bootable. Since the FreeeBSD ISO already has >> >that stuff in it, you don't want it done again. So, choose the options >> >that just write the data image directly to the CD with no additions. >> > >> No, no. This is wrong. You missed the explanation I posted regarding >> Sonic RecordNow!, as well as an earlier one by Robin Becker. The green >> button is the only way to tell the application that the file(s) it is to >> burn is/are image file(s), and it doesn't know that .iso files are a type >> of image file, so it doesn't list them in its browser unless you tell it >> to display *all* files in the chosen directory. > >Obviously, this Sonic RecordNow? software isn't working well for you. >Have you considered any of the alternatives that burn isos without >problems; Nero, Alcohol, Fireburner ? > As I already explained here on this list, the key to getting burncd to work right was to copy the image file from the Windows XP partition into a FreeBSD partition to use as input to burncd. That worked fine for CD-RWs, though not as well for CD-Rs. The earlier failure of burncd to produce a bootable CD-R was apparently caused somehow by having burncd read directly from a Windows XP partition mounted onto /mnt. That's it for the re-explanations, folks. Please don't post followups in this thread if you haven't been following it. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"