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From: Isaac Mushinsky <imush@mail.ru>
To: elina <elina@cloudfactory.org>,
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Subject: Re: BSD for PentiumII
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:36:38 -0400
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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
>
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