From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 1:30:54 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 01:30:53 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.snet.net (smtp.snet.net [204.60.6.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C5C37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:30:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from snet.net (46.9.252.64.snet.net [64.252.9.46]) by smtp.snet.net (8.11.1/8.11.1/SNET-mx-1.4/D-1.10/O-1.7) with ESMTP id f049Uju09145 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 04:30:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A5446BA.7020000@snet.net> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 04:47:38 -0500 From: mhf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Attempting install of 4.2 by CDROM, but no-go Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have just built a new computer and am trying to do a cdrom install of FreeBSD 4.2 using: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html Status: 13.6 gig. Western Digital HD has been formatted using Western Digital Disk Utility. I have made no partitions. The HD is to be dedicated to FreeBSD OS. Dos executable mscdex.exe has been installed and I am able to access the Acer CD-RW on D:\. I have set up BIOS to boot up with CD-RW drive. Upon boot, FreeBSD iso on cd does not run. Once computer completes boot and brings up C:\ prompt, I can switch to D:\ and read from the drive that the FreeBSD iso file is there on the cdrom. How do I execute installation from the iso file on cdrom? Can anyone help me with a jumpstart? I must be missing something very basic. First-timer here. I appreciate your time and patience. Mike Flug michael.flug@snet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message