From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 11:40:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from listproc.corp.loudcloud.com (olly.loudcloud.com [66.54.20.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3866537B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:40:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seanp@loudcloud.com) Received: from loudcloud.com (grover.geek.loudcloud.com [192.168.0.253]) by listproc.corp.loudcloud.com (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6JIXG325514; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B5728F0.5032F985@loudcloud.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:37:36 -0700 From: Sean Peck X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: elina Cc: Isaac Mushinsky , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BSD for PentiumII References: <3B563377.179CA889@cloudfactory.org> <01071902363801.00303@omsk.mushinsky.net> <003501c1106d$f734d900$95867ed8@org.cloudfactory.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 You can create bootable floppies, the manual explains how... of course I would probably invest the time to see if a BIOS upgrade existed for the motherboard to allow CDROM booting.... Its hugely convienent to be able to do so. elina wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Isaac Mushinsky > To: elina ; freebsd-questions > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:36 PM > Subject: Re: BSD for PentiumII > > > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 21:10, you wrote: > > > I downloaded freeBSD and burned the installation files onto cd, but my > > > computer with not recognize it as a bootable CD? What do I do? > > > > Do you mean > > 1. your BIOS cannot boot from CD at all? or perhaps > > This is the problem, > my BIOS cannot boot from the CD. I know I burned the image to the CD > correctly because I have another PC machine and it will boot up fine from > that one. So, If I try making bootable floppies, will it work? if so what > files, or where, do I get them? > I got a lot of responses. Everyone is so willing to help on this list, it's > nice. I'm sure I'll have more questions once I get the OS installed. > > Thanks everyone, > elina > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Garbage Collection... the bell bottoms of programming.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message