From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 16:44:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47AA16A4BF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E362043FDF for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7LNhwme011418; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:43:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id h7LNhwpw011415; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:43:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:43:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: James Igoe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030821174038.C11367@wonkity.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing from CD-ROM (was Re: your mail) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:44:00 -0000 On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, James Igoe wrote: > I am unable to install freebsd with the ISOs that were provided on the > freebsd ftp site. I have burned them onto a cd and I have attempted to boot > from them. However, I have found that they will not boot. I am working on a > i386 architecture, using both a p3 450mhz, 384MB RAM, ameritech bios box and > a celeron 1ghz 384MB RAM with a dell bios laptop. I have checked the boot > sequences and have corrected them so thatg they boot fromt he cd rom. Most likely you just copied the .iso files to the CD-ROM, instead of burning them as an image. You can verify this by checking the contents of the CDs; if there's only one large file, that's the problem. How to restore a .iso file to a CD is dependent on your CD-recording software; for example, with Roxio software on Windows, you should be able to right-click on the .iso file and choose Record to CD. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA