RE: BDI212-01

[Kurtis Martineau <klmartineau-at-shaw.ca>]

BTW,
How does one use MD5 to verify the checksum of the download?

Kurtis



> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Steve White
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:29 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: BDI212-01
>
>
>
> Kurtis,
>
>     I have burned a BDI from the ISO image, although it was an
> older version.  I
> burned about 4 coasters before I finally got it right.  At first
> there was a
> problem with the FTP server I was getting the image from.  After
> that was fixed
> I finally got an image file with a good MD5 checksum.
>
>     I still burned another coaster before I realized that you
> cannot "copy" the
> image file to the CD like you would do with other files.  You
> have to "create
> disk from image file".  I don't have that CD burner program on
> this system, so I
> can't tell you the version or the exact menu picks for sure.  I
> think it was
> with the Adaptec Easy CD Creator, and (I think) it was under
> "FILE", "Create CD
> >From Image File".  This is totally different from "copying" the
> image file to
> the CD.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> Kurtis Martineau wrote:
>
> > I haven't been able to burn a BDI212-01 cd.  I tried with two different
> > downloads of the iso image from
> http://www.yty.net/cnc/bdi.html.  With each
> > download I used Easy CD Creator ver 4.04_D11 set to track at
> once and then
> > set to disk at once.  I have the cd properties set to ISO9660, preserve
> > normal filing order, and mode 1: cdrom.  The process will burn
> the cd and
> > return okay, but the cd is not bootable or even readable.  Is
> the problem
> > with the length or style of the file name? Maybe I'll try BDI212.iso.  I
> > have been successful in the past by simply changing the img
> extension of 209
> > and 211 to iso and then double-clicking, but I never documented
> the rest of
> > the process or the defaulted settings, etc.  Anyone been successful?
> >
> > Kurtis
>
>
>