Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 02:12:15 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "spock80" <spock80@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: having problems installing 4.2 from ISO D/L... Message-ID: <016801c0b934$312f5f40$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <3AC4AD1B.E81B65A4@home.com>
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Sounds to me like the ISO image hasn't been burned to the CD correctly. The information on doing that isn't as clear as I'd like it to be. The only reliable way I'm aware of to do it involves Adaptec Ezy-CD .... because it has a clearly marked menu item "Create CD from disc image". There are options for "cif" & "iso", but its no more complicated than that. If you have Win2K its best to get Ezy-CD version 4 or later because there are some issues with 3.x.. (workarounds are available, but why make life more complicated than necessary??) The base version was provided with many CD burners with an upgrade to "deluxe" available at whatever cost (don't bother, it doesn't do anything special anyway) I got my copy free off the net someplace (its about 400Mb though) There have been several discussions of this issue in the past ... some people claim other Windows CD copy applications will do the job, but to date I haven't seen any halfway explicit information. Its also supposed to be possible to do this in unix / linux, probably not relevant to your situation however. ----- Original Message ----- From: "spock80" <spock80@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 1:58 AM Subject: having problems installing 4.2 from ISO D/L... > hello, > > need advice on installing FreeBSD ver 4.2 ISO image on CD to my PC...the > ISO image is not configured to Auto-Install or Boot from the CD...i've > already made the two floppy's and get to the point of trying to install > from field or ftp through field...any suggestions? > > it seems as if the freeBSD is purposely made difficult for the novice, > im not saying marketing the word "free" has anything to do with it, just > that the installation could be made allot easier...appreciate any > advice, thanx.... > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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