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Subject: Re: misc/165744: installation problem
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Synopsis: installation problem

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: remko
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 7 06:44:24 UTC 2012
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Dear Siddhartha,

First of all thank you for the willingness to try FreeBSD. Sadly I have
to inform you that you selected the wrong way of getting help, the system
you are currently using is for Problems only, and you require additional
help. You can find this help however on the questions@freebsd.org mailinglist
and/or on http://forums.freebsd.org.

I am sure more people installed FreeBSD next to a Windows partition, though
be reminded that you cannot start the installation itself if you are booted
within Windows. Either you have to boot it from DVD or get it going with
a Virtualization product like VMware.

If you for example download the DVD ISO (as you seem to have done) you should
burn that to a DVD with a burner application (Nero and the like) which should
make it possible to boot from the DVD. You might need to tell your BIOS/system
that it should use the DVD first instead of harddisk or anything. Since this
varies between systems it's hart to tell what the correct procedure is.

I hope you will join us on the questions mailinglist and/or forums and that you
will find everything you need within FreeBSD, welcome to the community!


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