From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 28 23: 8:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E32637B41F for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA30960; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:08:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3CCCE34D.2050101@owt.com> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:08:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Toomas Aas Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello References: <002801c1ee00$fc2c0ac0$0100a8c0@station1> <200204290601.g3T61ha08467@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > >>The FBSD 4 CD set is available from many FBSD FTP sites. Many people think >>they can just download the ISO image, burn it to CD and away they go. Well >>here a news flash for you, it's not that easy. First of all the ISO image is >>not supported in the MS/Windows world. Sure you can download it and burn it >>to an CD using MS/Windows, but you end up with a data disk, not an bootable >>CD, which it has to be to install from. >> > > What??? > > I have downloaded and burned several ISO images (3.2, 3.4, 4.4, 4.5) > using MS Windows and they have always turned out right (i.e. > bootable). I have to agree. All of the cdrom burners on Windows support burning isos. Finding out how to do it may be a little obscure but they all do it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message