From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 6: 4:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmailg7.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg7.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FC437B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 06:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from [195.92.67.23] (helo=mail18.svr.pol.co.uk) by cmailg7.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 153dkM-0007m0-00; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:04:46 +0100 Received: from modem-190.blue-streak-damsel.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.241.190] helo=mark2) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 153dkL-0000ZV-00; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:04:46 +0100 Message-ID: <005401c0e5e4$6fc41700$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: Cc: References: <000b01c0e58a$1ee69790$0200a8c0@mark2> <3B0F2BDC.1424876E@urx.com> Subject: Re: Settings for burning CD in Nero / weird error on install - "Your CD looks more like an audio CD than a FreeBSD release CD" Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:04:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 > > I've just downloaded and burned the 4.3-release ISO, and it boots up fine into > > /stand/sysinstall....after setting all the options and starting the install, it says (just > > after "Starting emergency shell on vty1"), > > > > "This CD looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSD release CD" > > > > I've tried burning the CD again, with the same result. Anyone else had this? > > > > I think the problem could lie with the way I'm burning the CD, using the Nero software on > > Win98SE....what options do most people use when importing the ISO to nero to burn the CD? > > I've been using the standard default settings.... > > You have to choose "Burn image" from the file menu. The default if *.nrg but > if you select the drop down there is the all (*.*). You select your iso and > it burns a FreeBSD iso just fine. For more information, see > http://www.nero.com/en/cfaqs.htm Hmmm. Yeah, I read that page and did exactly what it says (and what you have said here)....no luck though, it comes up with this weird error. Looking at the contents of the CD in windows it all looks right, and the boot loader and everything works fine, it's just when it starts to install that it goes weird. Thanks, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message