I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn

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Bill Moran wrote:

>Jerry Schromm <schromms at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback.
>>Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am
>>excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I
>>will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of
>>old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a
>>believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide
>>information from us not inform us.
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>>The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot
>>disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and
>>it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something.
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>This is almost definatly a problem with your burning software.  Even a
>corrupted ISO will burn successfully, although you won't be able to use
>the CD.
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Are you sure? If you download the ISO in ASCII mode (therefore corrupting
it), it will be bigger than the already full binary image. Some combination
of burning software and media could result in a bad burn.

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