From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 11:17:32 2002 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 5DF7037B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp02.iafrica.com (smtp02.iafrica.com [196.7.0.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FE643E4A for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@sdn.co.za) Received: from nop236.nop.jnb6.za.uu.net ([196.30.158.236] helo=blackhole) by smtp02.iafrica.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17w56k-000N4l-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:17:26 +0200 Message-ID: <03b101c268ad$a8baf1d0$ec9e1ec4@staff.uunet.co.za> From: "Patrick Holahan" To: , "Mooney Potter" References: <3D98909C.00008D.10125@ns.interchange.ca> Subject: Re: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:17:34 +0200 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 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 Hi Mooney, You need to burn the contents of the ISO image.. not the physical file whatever.iso If you'd like to read the contents, you can mount the .iso file using the following: mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/file /path/to/mount/point I'm not up to date on cd writing under *nix so I can't help you there, but you can read up / search the web for articles on how to do it.. Regards, -ph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mooney Potter" To: Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:57 PM Subject: I'm New, Help, regarding Installation > To the Support Group, > > When I download the iso images for freebsd5, do I just burn them tot > he CD? Like do I need something else to read the iso-images when I > boot or does my computer? > > Do I just need the ISo images to install FREEbsd? > > -xachen > _________________________________________________________________ > http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Secure Web Email for Canadians To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message