From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 25 15:33:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7C616A418 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:33:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from crackmonkey.us (crackmonkey.us [70.58.166.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4217513C459 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:33:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from [10.22.8.146] (cpc1-swin7-0-0-cust216.brhm.cable.ntl.com [::ffff:86.18.88.217]) (AUTH: PLAIN fatman, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by crackmonkey.us with esmtp; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:32:54 -0600 id 0017C688.46D04BAB.00007409 Message-ID: <46D04B09.8050400@crackmonkey.us> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:30:17 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sonicy@otenet.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:33:06 -0000 lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca wrote: > So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: > burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate > and it booted just fine. > > Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending > the better part of the weekend doing the installation of 6.2. Wish me > luck. Hurrah! :) Better part of a weekend, though? Oh well, mine not to reason why... It occurs to me now that under Win98 you would have had to use the ASPI layer to burn your CD. Much as I loathe Nero, I found it was the ASPI layer that caused my problems. The ASPI layer [for whatever reason] tends to degrade over time until it's unusable. When I finally upgraded my systems to Windows 2000, I was able to use the SPTI layer, which I found far superior to ASPI. It might be a good idea not to use Win98 for burning CDs any more. If you did decide to use a more recent version of Windows, I can recommend the freeware project Burnatonce, which is fully SPTI-capable.