Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 08:02:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Nelson Yu <ynelson@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot from CD Message-ID: <3664F406.7E957281@uk.radan.com> References: <3664E815.F1C25BCD@yahoo.com>
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Nelson Yu wrote: > > I bought the FreeBSD CDs and try to boot it from my CD-Rom directly > which my PentiumII system supports. I get a read error message. I have > version 2.2.6. Shouldn't I be able to boot and run from the CD-Rom > directly? > Yes, you should. This points to a faulty CD (WC should exchange them if this is the case) or drive (can you read other CD's?). Can you view the contents of the CD in explorer? (I'm assuming you're running Windoze), . If you can read the CD in Windoze you could try doing a DOS boot from the CD, instructions are in one of the TXT files (not sure which) in the root dir of CD 1. > Nelson <ynelson@yahoo.com> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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