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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:10:36 -0500
From:      "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.10 Install failure.
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20040816120927.0d4d7d90@209.152.117.178>
In-Reply-To: <8550301b040816084311805b30@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200408161536.i7GFamA28975@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <200408161536.i7GFamA28975@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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At 10:43 8/16/2004, Tyler Parrott, wrote:
>Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the image already
>being bootable.  I supposed I should do my homework before making my
>posts:)
>
>Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back to where I started
>with no idea how to move forward...
>
>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:36:47 -0400 (EDT), Jerry McAllister
><jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > After reading that, I think it might be possible that I burnt the
>> > images correctly, but I simply did not make the CD's bootable.  I was
>> > using k3b to burn the images, but I might just have a go at it with
>> > Nero.  Thanks!
>>=20
>> The CD image that you download from the FreeBSD site is already a
>> bootable ISO.   It needs to be written to the CD as a raw file and
>> not converted or processed in any way.  It should not be put in a
>> file system on the CD or processed to be bootable, or etc.   It is
>> already a complete CD image.
>>=20
>> ////jerry

Try your 4.10 CD on a different computer?  Burn a 4.9 CD?

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