From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 7:50:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B99AF37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5861 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2000 16:50:38 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-4-193.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.tninet.se) (62.5.4.193) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 6 Sep 2000 16:50:38 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands Reply-To: mark.rowlands@minmail.net To: Micke Josefsson , David Kanter Subject: RE: Using ISO images Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:45:31 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD Questions References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00090616503802.24470@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Micke Josefsson wrote: > On 05-Sep-00 David Kanter wrote: > > Someone sent me a CD that has the 4.1-RELEASE ISO image burned onto it. > > How do I (can I?) use this image to set up FreeBSD? > > You can, will and MUST! > > > I tried booting off the CD but it wouldn't work. Do I need to create the > > boot disks, and then read off the CD? > > I believe the CD should be bootable, but if it does not then resort to > floppies. Lookup kernflp and mfsroot.flp in /floppies and use a program under > /tools to transfer. If you have unix around then dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > bs=32k may work for you. > > > Or, was this ISO image supposed to be expanded before it was burned onto > > the disk? > > No. An iso is an iso is an iso. > and if it does say something.iso and you just cant wait you can expand it with winimage to c:\freebsd and then do an install from a dos partition - see the Handbook for more on this. -- Mark Rowlands +4686224510 GMT + 1 _______________________________________________ These opinions are mine, they are just opinions you are free to disagree, please do so quietly _______________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message