Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:36:38 -0400 From: Isaac Mushinsky <imush@mail.ru> To: elina <elina@cloudfactory.org>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD for PentiumII Message-ID: <01071902363801.00303@omsk.mushinsky.net> In-Reply-To: <3B563377.179CA889@cloudfactory.org> References: <3B563377.179CA889@cloudfactory.org>
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 21:10, you wrote: > I downloaded freeBSD and burned the installation files onto cd, but my > computer with not recognize it as a bootable CD? What do I do? Do you mean=20 1. your BIOS cannot boot from CD at all? or perhaps=20 2.you did not burn the image correctly?=20 In case (1) make boot floppies (it is explained in the handbook where to = get=20 the images to make floppies). In case (2) make sure you actually create a CD from image and not just co= py=20 it as a file. Also make sure it is burned to iso9660 format and not the=20 Microsoft joliet something. > > I am using an old computer, I somehow acquired. It's has a PentiumII > 180mhz processor, 2gbhd and 128mb of ram and I can't remember the > motherboard. Anyway, I want to put BSD on it, just to get familiar with > a unix-based os. Good luck. > > thanks, > elina > > > 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
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