Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:01:38 +1000 From: R Skinner <rocky@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD-9.0-RC3 Disk 1 ISO Bootable? Message-ID: <4F0520A2.8040602@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net>
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On 01/05/12 13:23, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso > <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso>; > and burned the image to CD. However the CD does not boot. Just > wanted to confirm that it is supposed to be bootable. > > Also, is there a DVD version? I don't have many CDs around my house > but plenty of DVDs. :) Hi Drew, and welcome to FreeBSD. How did you 'burn' the disc? As an iso image (in Windows) you can open any burning program and tell it to burn it as is; you don't need to extract any contents. This is the usual problem if it won't boot. Alternatively, you can try making an installer on a usb disk. I'd recommend at least a 2Gb stick, preferably 4G. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html section 3.3.5. HTH
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