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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:28:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        David Kanter <david.kanter@mindspring.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Using ISO images
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009051726060.28720-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <MABBKMJGAGPIMCKIEBBAAEFPCAAA.david.kanter@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Kanter wrote:

> Someone sent me a CD that has the 4.1-RELEASE ISO image burned onto it.
> How do I (can I?) use this image to set up FreeBSD?
> 
> I tried booting off the CD but it wouldn't work. Do I need to create the
> boot disks, and then read off the CD?
> 
> Or, was this ISO image supposed to be expanded before it was burned onto
> the disk?

The CD image should be about 600 mega bytes. When you burn it, make sure
to use burn CD image option, not burn data CD option.  Otherwise, it won't
boot.  That was my experience.

-Zhihui



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