From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 13:45:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82626156C2 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org) Received: from [212.126.149.143] (helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 11Snq5-0001g3-00; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:45:37 +0000 Content-Length: 983 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990917124517.54158.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:45:34 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: The Ricster Subject: RE: Distribution CD#1 Problem Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Sep-99 The Ricster wrote: > Greetings, > I have just bought the FreeBSD Book(Walnut Creek) w/ 3.2 of FreeBSD. > However, when I place the CD#1 into my CDROM drive, I cannot view its > contents and it keep spinning as if it were a bad CD. My question: > 1) Does CD#1 somehow function only as a bootable CD and cannot be viewed > under filemanager in WIndows? No. The CD is a standard ISO9660 CD-ROM. You should be able to read it under any operating system. > 2) If it is a bad CD, how can I obtain a replacement CD#1 from you..I just > bought the book yesterday as special order from Barnes and Noble. > (I can access contents of CD#3 the live filesystem CD) I would suggest taking it back to Barnes and Noble and ask for a replacement, seeing as the media is faulty. Failing that, you could try Walnut Creek on http://www.cdrom.com --- Andrew Boothman FreeBSD UK User Group http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~andrew/ http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message