From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 11:10:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.zeetelecom.com (bdsl.66.12.179.235.gte.net [66.12.179.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5830137B405 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jahanur@zeetelecom.com) Received: from jahanurs (ns1.zeetelecom.net [66.12.179.234]) by backup.zeetelecom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA12118; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:02:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jahanur@zeetelecom.com) From: "Jahanur R Subedar" To: "freebsd-questions" , "Kent Stewart" Subject: RE: making bootable cdrom Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:04:09 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3B717B5D.C0DAF43E@urx.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think you are right I created it wrongly. I have the easy cd creator and I found the option there. Thanks for the help. jahanur -----Original Message----- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:kstewart@urx.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:48 PM To: Jahanur R Subedar Cc: freebsd-questions; Tyler McGeorge Subject: Re: making bootable cdrom Jahanur R Subedar wrote: > > can you be more clear. > As I understand that you are saying I need boot.flp file along with the > 4.3-install.iso file to be burned in the cd and some how letting burning > software inform that it is a boot cd, I dont think any software does that. > Please be more clear. It sounds like you should have burned the iso as an image file. How did you burn the CDROM. I use Nero 5.5 or Ez CD Creator and both of them have a file menu item to do that. Kent > > Jahanur > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tyler McGeorge [mailto:tylermcgeorge@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:23 PM > To: jahanur@zeetelecom.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: making bootable cdrom > > You need to download the boot.flp from the FTP and, when you burn the CD, > make it a Boot-CD with boot.flp as the boot image. > > Tyler McGeorge > FreeBSD Newbie Administrator for 2 years > FreeBSD Advocate for 3 years > Always looking for a job > > >From: "Jahanur R Subedar" > >To: "freebsd-questions" > >Subject: making bootable cdrom > >Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:02:10 -0500 > > > >Hi, > >I have downloaded the 4.3-install.iso and burned it to a cdrom as datacd. > >Becasue it is specified that it is iso 9660. > >Now do I need anything else to burn in it other than the iso file. > > > >Because I tried to boot it it does not boot. I know my bios is set to boot > >from the cdrom because I used one of my win98 install cd just to check if > >boots from it or not it does. And all other old versions of FreeBSD cdrom > >that I bought from the Walnut cdrom boots fine too. > >Except this one. I dont know what am I doing wrong. > > > >Please help !! > > > >Jahanur > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message