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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:10:29 -0500
From:      Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>
To:        Daniel Lewis <innervisionnetwork@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing free bsd
Message-ID:  <CANT0rcvQrOrNrj5UkkksgEe5ONSx7VWbwEtb1wm6Z%2BO5ab3byQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111212210028.GB42429@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote:
>
>> Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It
>> was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it.
>> Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup.
>> Need support.. Is the windows format on disk causing problems?
>
> Well, the .iso files you get from the FreeBSD distribution are ISO
> image files that need to be burned directly to a disk. =A0There is no
> other processing or formatting that may be done.
>
> I do not know what you mean by 'unzipped to a cd rom'. =A0I have never
> done anything that sounded like that.
>
> You should just download the .iso file and burn in to a fresh cd
> and fixate it. =A0Then boot it.
>
> ////jerry

Yeah, there is nothing to "unzip". You need to simply burn the ISO
image on a CD/DVD. Once it is burned you should look at the content of
the CD/DVD and you should see the files that are part of the ISO
image...



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