Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:05:29 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing free bsd Message-ID: <20111212230529.GC42821@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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First of all, always include the list in a response to something from the list. Other people will be reading and may well know more than me or any other person who responds. eg, don't just send the follow-on question back to the one responding. Send it to the list. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:26:06PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: > do direct ftp to disk? And what do you mean by fixate? No. You ftp the file down to the local machine and then use a CD burning utility to burn file to the CD. On FreeBSD there is one called 'burncd'. I am not familiar with the ones on a MS system, but there are several available. Maybe someone else will suggest one or there is probably some information in the handbook. Fixate is something that finishes writing a terminal record on the CD image or something like that. I don't really know in detail. I think some burner utilities do it automatically with no choice. The burncd utility needs to have you specify it. ////jerry > > On 12/12/11, 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. There is no > > other processing or formatting that may be done. > > > > I do not know what you mean by 'unzipped to a cd rom'. I 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. Then boot it. > > > > ////jerry > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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