From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 10:48:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90A537B40D for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AB5F1BFA01B0; Wed, 08 Aug 2001 10:48:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3B717B5D.C0DAF43E@urx.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 10:48:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jahanur R Subedar Cc: freebsd-questions , Tyler McGeorge Subject: Re: making bootable cdrom References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > > can you be more clear. > As I understand that you are saying I need boot.flp file along with the > 4.3-install.iso file to be burned in the cd and some how letting burning > software inform that it is a boot cd, I dont think any software does that. > Please be more clear. It sounds like you should have burned the iso as an image file. How did you burn the CDROM. I use Nero 5.5 or Ez CD Creator and both of them have a file menu item to do that. Kent > > Jahanur > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tyler McGeorge [mailto:tylermcgeorge@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:23 PM > To: jahanur@zeetelecom.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: making bootable cdrom > > You need to download the boot.flp from the FTP and, when you burn the CD, > make it a Boot-CD with boot.flp as the boot image. > > Tyler McGeorge > FreeBSD Newbie Administrator for 2 years > FreeBSD Advocate for 3 years > Always looking for a job > > >From: "Jahanur R Subedar" > >To: "freebsd-questions" > >Subject: making bootable cdrom > >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:02:10 -0500 > > > >Hi, > >I have downloaded the 4.3-install.iso and burned it to a cdrom as datacd. > >Becasue it is specified that it is iso 9660. > >Now do I need anything else to burn in it other than the iso file. > > > >Because I tried to boot it it does not boot. I know my bios is set to boot > >from the cdrom because I used one of my win98 install cd just to check if > >boots from it or not it does. And all other old versions of FreeBSD cdrom > >that I bought from the Walnut cdrom boots fine too. > >Except this one. I dont know what am I doing wrong. > > > >Please help !! > > > >Jahanur > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message