Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:45:31 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>, David Kanter <david.kanter@mindspring.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Using ISO images Message-ID: <00090616503802.24470@marbsd.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000906120711.mj@isy.liu.se> References: <XFMail.000906120711.mj@isy.liu.se>
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Micke Josefsson wrote: > On 05-Sep-00 David Kanter wrote: > > Someone sent me a CD that has the 4.1-RELEASE ISO image burned onto it. > > How do I (can I?) use this image to set up FreeBSD? > > You can, will and MUST! > > > I tried booting off the CD but it wouldn't work. Do I need to create the > > boot disks, and then read off the CD? > > I believe the CD should be bootable, but if it does not then resort to > floppies. Lookup kernflp and mfsroot.flp in /floppies and use a program under > /tools to transfer. If you have unix around then dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > bs=32k may work for you. > > > Or, was this ISO image supposed to be expanded before it was burned onto > > the disk? > > No. An iso is an iso is an iso. > and if it does say something.iso and you just cant wait you can expand it with winimage to c:\freebsd and then do an install from a dos partition - see the Handbook for more on this. -- Mark Rowlands +4686224510 GMT + 1 _______________________________________________ These opinions are mine, they are just opinions you are free to disagree, please do so quietly _______________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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