misc/155732: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz is corrupt or otherwise unusable with MS Windows XP applications.

[b. f.]

The following reply was made to PR misc/155732; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "b. f." <bf1783 at googlemail.com>
To: "Edward T. Mischanko" <etm1962 at hotmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/155732: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz
 is corrupt or otherwise unusable with MS Windows XP applications.
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:22:57 +0000

 >After downloading [ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2
 >/FreeBSD->8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz],
 >I am unable to open the image with WinRAR or burn the installation DVD
 >with Nero9. This is contrary to the 8.1 release which works fine with
 >these two applications. Please post a repaired image and/or advise which
 >Windows applications can be used to make the DVD.
 
 DVD images for the previous release were compressed with gzip.  In an
 attempt to save disk space and network traffic, they are now
 compressed with xz, which uses lzma compression.  I don't know what
 problem(s) you experienced, because you didn't provide specific
 information, but I think that you are having trouble because WinRAR
 (according to the description at the WInRAR homepage) doesn't support
 xz-compressed files. Try using one of the following instead:
 
 xzutils:
 http://tukaani.org/xz/
 (Windows binaries:
 http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.1-windows.zip  )
 
 or
 
 peazip:
 http://www.peazip.org/
 
 (These are not the only packages that will do the job, of course:
 there are others.) After decompressing the dvd image, you should be
 able to burn it to optical media as before with your favorite burning
 program -- Nero, or, for example, a Windows binary package of
 cdrtools:
 
 http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?CDRTOOLS_with_DVD_Support
 
 b.