From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 5:50:49 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 05:50:47 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938B537B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:50:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:50:31 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1441Ph-0003qP-00; Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:48:45 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:48:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant To: joro_tshte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, joro_tshte wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I'm totally new in FreeBSD and that's why I would like to ask you a few > questions. Until now I have used Red Hat Linux and Slackware Linux. > What exactly is an ISO image? Can I /and how if it's so/ install FreeBSD > by it? > I hope you can help me. Thank you. It's a bit-by-bit image of a CD. CD-burning software will let you make a CD from it, which should (if your hardware/BIOS supports it) be directly bootable. So you get the ISO, burn a CD and boot it, dropping you straight into the install with all the bits and pieces you should need available locally. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk If it's broken really badly - don't fix it either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message