Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:31:45 -0500 From: Laszlo Vagner <freebsd@vagner.com> To: freebsd@goepp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image Message-ID: <3E188821.3080900@vagner.com> References: <005501c2b4ed$df4c8ce0$6432a8c0@dpg>
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Daniel Goepp wrote: >The problem may not be BSD. You say you have changed your BIOS to boot >the CD, but have you verified that any other bootable CDs work? Like >your original windows CD? Also, do you have another machine you could >check to verify that the FreeBSD CD is bootable? If not, I would check >your ISO burning process to make sure it's working correctly. > >-Daniel > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of William Coles >Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:15 PM >To: freebsd-questions >Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image > >Greetings, > >I'm new to the list and new to FreeBSD. Here is my situation: > >I have downloaded the 4.7-mini iso from one of the ftp sites. I have >extracted the file and burnt it onto a cd-rw as a data cd (ISO) using >nero. >I am trying to install FreeBSD from this disc, but am having difficulty. >A >little more background on my current system config... I am running win2k >pro >(NTFS), which is dedicated to one of my hard drives. I have freed up >another >hard drive (3 GB) to install nix. I changed my BIOS settings to boot >from >CD, restarted and... the system boots into windows. I feel I'm just >overlooking a simple detail, but I'm not familiar enough with FreeBSD >yet to >understand what I need to do to install. I have read the eratta.txt, >readme.txt and the install.txt, but can't seem to find what file is the >actual install file, or how I can go about installing from the CD onto >my >available drive? Any help will be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, >Bill > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > you should have only burned the iso file from nero and not "extracted" it. extracting it would give you the files but not the boot info and possible munged the filenames. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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