Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:30:13 -0500 From: "Diego F. Arias R." <dak.col@gmail.com> To: Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3b93bd111001020430t3c8c1c7fy52767d687fcdb147@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ea6713a21001020200x72bf2164h1008b2353b3d3383@mail.gmail.com> References: <ea6713a21001020200x72bf2164h1008b2353b3d3383@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Paul Shi <shihang@hkusua.hku.hk> wrote: > Dear Everyone, > > I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at > the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. > > I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned > it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot > from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. > However, > system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to > command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\> > > I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I > will > greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this > weird > problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! > > Your sincerely, > Paul Shi > Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior > Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering > University of Hong Kong > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have never seen something like that on a FreeBSD Boot. Are you shure the machine is bootig from CD an the CD is the right one? try redownloading the ISO (Disc 1). -- mmm, interesante.....
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