Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:30:17 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> To: lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca Cc: sonicy@otenet.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot Message-ID: <46D04B09.8050400@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <BAY105-F20E93AB73FC63F7B7929D283D00@phx.gbl> References: <BAY105-F20E93AB73FC63F7B7929D283D00@phx.gbl>
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lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca wrote: > So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: > burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate > and it booted just fine. > > Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending > the better part of the weekend doing the installation of 6.2. Wish me > luck. Hurrah! :) Better part of a weekend, though? Oh well, mine not to reason why... It occurs to me now that under Win98 you would have had to use the ASPI layer to burn your CD. Much as I loathe Nero, I found it was the ASPI layer that caused my problems. The ASPI layer [for whatever reason] tends to degrade over time until it's unusable. When I finally upgraded my systems to Windows 2000, I was able to use the SPTI layer, which I found far superior to ASPI. It might be a good idea not to use Win98 for burning CDs any more. If you did decide to use a more recent version of Windows, I can recommend the freeware project Burnatonce, which is fully SPTI-capable.
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