Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:10:29 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: Daniel Lewis <innervisionnetwork@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing free bsd Message-ID: <CANT0rcvQrOrNrj5UkkksgEe5ONSx7VWbwEtb1wm6Z%2BO5ab3byQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111212210028.GB42429@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <CAHsiZG9gK4r_Nnf5M8=5cUzg=%2BhOd5ZeeiePPTC-yL_kp61MpQ@mail.gmail.com> <20111212210028.GB42429@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: > >> Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It >> was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. >> Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup. >> Need support.. Is the windows format on disk causing problems? > > Well, the .iso files you get from the FreeBSD distribution are ISO > image files that need to be burned directly to a disk. =A0There is no > other processing or formatting that may be done. > > I do not know what you mean by 'unzipped to a cd rom'. =A0I have never > done anything that sounded like that. > > You should just download the .iso file and burn in to a fresh cd > and fixate it. =A0Then boot it. > > ////jerry Yeah, there is nothing to "unzip". You need to simply burn the ISO image on a CD/DVD. Once it is burned you should look at the content of the CD/DVD and you should see the files that are part of the ISO image...
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