From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 00:04:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23148 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23134 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.054 #1) id 0zl7G4-0007aQ-00; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:03:37 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01731; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:03:06 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02017; Wed, 2 Dec 98 08:03:05 GMT Message-Id: <3664F406.7E957281@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 08:02:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nelson Yu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot from CD References: <3664E815.F1C25BCD@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nelson Yu wrote: > > I bought the FreeBSD CDs and try to boot it from my CD-Rom directly > which my PentiumII system supports. I get a read error message. I have > version 2.2.6. Shouldn't I be able to boot and run from the CD-Rom > directly? > Yes, you should. This points to a faulty CD (WC should exchange them if this is the case) or drive (can you read other CD's?). Can you view the contents of the CD in explorer? (I'm assuming you're running Windoze), . If you can read the CD in Windoze you could try doing a DOS boot from the CD, instructions are in one of the TXT files (not sure which) in the root dir of CD 1. > Nelson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message