From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 14:28:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68A116A402 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E5513C4A5 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i22so237813wra for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:28:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=LJePFS5b01YcGeElDKMdRngIU55u4mKRQZpagiOYtJglGBk4MEwGpYhXmj6n6+kSedRAh2nRwsh8x3yG6WoN8RvBdF0Y1haUsd9adLY5fvst+O640vc7490RMIncvCEK0iMPD5Y7ujjSEsKiX5hZczDsxUPXYBZWqNh6IyqPV0g= Received: by 10.114.122.2 with SMTP id u2mr162003wac.1171463279891; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.211.20 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:27:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:27:59 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <75cd2a440702132357t3378daa9r249c73af4ff7351d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <75cd2a440702132357t3378daa9r249c73af4ff7351d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: NEED HELP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:09 -0000 On 2/14/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi wrote: > > HELLO > > I NEED YOUR HELP REGARDING INSTALLING FREE BSD ON MY NEWLY BOUGHT PC. MY > PC > SPECS ARE P4 D 3.4GHZ, 1024MB DDR2 667 RAM, GIGABYTE MOTHER BOARD 945PL-S3, > NX7300GT-TD256EH VIDEO CARD, SATA 250GB, 7200 RPM ( I DONT KNOW ITS SATA > OR > SATA II, CAUZ I DONT KNOW HOW TO CHECK, CAN U PLZ TELL ME.). > > I WANT TO INSTALL "6.2-RELEASE-i386-". ON MY PC. I AM TRYING TO READ AND > UNDERSTAND INSTALLATION NOTES. I HAVE DOWNLOADED FOLLOWING ITEMS FROM THIS > LINK " ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ " > > > Jan 12 2007 14:51 25444352 6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso < > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso > > > Jan 12 2007 14:53 601229312 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > < > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso > > > Jan 12 2007 14:55 670107648 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso Burn these 2 images into cdrom and boot with disk 1, that will boot up the cdrom, of course you need to alter the boot sequence in Bios to it boots via cdrom. Even before doing anything there refer to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html By the way avoid using full capital letters or upper case letters on emails, that just means you are shouting or yelling or screaming at people for responses in email. regards Dak