From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jan 24 20:41:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.nobaloney.net (joshua.nobaloney.net [63.108.93.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE0837B416 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobaloney.net (adsl-64-170-55-19.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.55.19]) (authenticated) by ns1.ns-one.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g0P4fOH04830; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:41:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3C50E1F6.94869FE5@nobaloney.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:41:26 -0800 From: Jeff Lasman Organization: nobaloney.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keshav Tadimeti , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports included in ISOs? References: <002101c1a4ea$f3454430$1144a9cb@keshav> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Keshav Tadimeti wrote: > Thanks for your answers. I gather that all I do is copy the file > 4.4-install.iso for example to the CD-ROM. SO when I load the cd-rom > on to windows, I should be able to see only ONE file - 4.4-install.iso > for example. Nope. You should be able to see ... > Q: I have the standard (mini edition) for 4.3. Under WIn NT I do a dir > of F: (which is my CD rom drive containing 4.3 BSD. The output is as > follows: > Directory of F:\ > > 04/21/01 11:46a . > 04/21/01 11:46a .. > 04/21/01 04:16a 9,707 ABOUT.TXT > 04/21/01 04:16a 980 ERRATA.TXT ...... ...exactly what you see. However, whether or not your cd will boot itself, only your own experimentation will tell. If it won't, just create a boot floppy. > I got this CD-ROM from a local reseller who makes money by downloading > Linux and BSD images from the NET and burining it on CD-ROM. > How do I make the right copy? It looks right to me. > I can't boot to FreeBSD and do the CD-burning. I am a novice. > Any leads would be appreciated. If it won't boot on your system, use the tools on it to create a boot floppy. Reading "install.txt" under windows would be a good start. The "floppies" directory will probably have some floppy images and a program to use to write them. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message