From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 01:51:25 2008 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 67B8B106564A for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:51:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-111.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-111.bluehost.com [69.89.18.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 224F28FC1A for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:51:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 1430 invoked by uid 0); 24 Mar 2008 01:51:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 24 Mar 2008 01:51:22 -0000 Received: from c-67-165-217-249.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.165.217.249] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JdbqM-00088S-CH for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:51:22 -0600 Received: by demeter.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:51:23 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:51:23 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080324015123.GB75985@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <108666.9038.qm@web83401.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <1206227405.6973.50.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1206227405.6973.50.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 67.165.217.249 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: I'd like some help 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: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:51:25 -0000 On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: > > I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i want to try Free BSD, but i can't figure out how to download it and the instructions don't make sense. I am running Windows XP OS- can you tell me how to download Free BSD with it? > > Go to the download section of the site and download the iso files. Once > you have those, double click on them and burn them to disk. Last I checked, the MS Windows built-in CD burning software didn't do burning from an image -- you'd need third-party software. Burning an ISO without such software would just result in a copy of the ISO on the CD, rather than a CD that would boot up an installer. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do."