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On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:10:37 +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote
> On 12/17/2011 04:04 PM, Maxime-Etienne de Gier wrote:
> > I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
> > when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the
> > DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up (Laptop PackardBell).
> > Any insight?  Thanks and much regard.
> >
> >
> > Maxime.
> >
> >
> What errors do you get, if any? Is the BIOS set accordingly?
> 
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> Rares Aioanei
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Are you burning the ISO image corectly i.e. making a bootable CD/DVD or are 
you just copying the ISO file to the DVD? If the latter, you need to get a 
ISO image burner (software) and burn it properly.

-Grant