a clue....

[Gary Kline]

	guys, me-thinks siomebody is messing with us.  i append
	something i just got from mpcustomer.com.

	'host' and 'whois' don't tell very much::



tao# host 208.43.146.75
75.146.43.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
secure.mpcustomer.com.
tao# whois !$
whois 208.43.146.75
SoftLayer Technologies Inc. SOFTLAYER-4-6 (NET-208-43-0-0-1)
                                  208.43.0.0 - 208.43.255.255
Hosting Services Inc. NET-208-43-146-64 (NET-208-43-146-64-1)
                                  208.43.146.64 - 208.43.146.95

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2010-05-08 20:00
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS
database.
#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html


	


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Ticket subject: Re: magic cmd[s]?? 
Ticket number: 24488295
Ticket link: https://secure.mpcustomer.com/ticket.php?ticket=24488295
Ticket body: 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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