From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 15:43:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C82816A4D1 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:43:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6989E43D31 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:43:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no (amidala.datadok.no [194.54.103.98]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j13FhB5n012383 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:43:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <57f436bb65d77717a3685de24a0a8438@adelphia.net> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 03 Feb 2005 16:42:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <57f436bb65d77717a3685de24a0a8438@adelphia.net> Message-ID: <86oef1hcpu.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't boot from the CD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:43:34 -0000 Glen Stewart writes: > I downloaded FreeBSD from your site (I downloaded it to my MAC) > The PC that I will put it on is a new Compaq Presairo - with a AMD > Semptron 3000+ Chip. > The ISO that I downloaded onto the MAC was dragged and drppped - then > Burned on a CD. > I did not "prep the file or convert it" in any way. One rather common mistake is to put the ISO file on a CD as a file rather than burning the image (which is in fact a binary copy of a CD file system) to the disk. Most, if not all, CD writer programs have a "burn image" option or similar. If you burned the ISO correctly, your Mac should see a number of files and folders on the CD. If all you see is one rather large file, the CD will not be usable. > I switched the boot order to CD - and I still cannot get the Free BSD > Disk to boot... > What do I need to do? What messages, if any, do you get? The help you get here generally improves with the precision in reporting such things as error messages. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"