From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 10: 2:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E4D37B412 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbia ([12.93.208.71]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20011001170233.WFTC6924.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@columbia>; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:02:33 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Ben Turner" , Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:00:45 -0400 Message-ID: <007301c14a9a$9c7de580$6600000a@columbia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ben Turner > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:53 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 > > > Yea I figured out that it was an extremely old version after I had gotten > the disks to finally boot up. I tried to get the newer 4.3 but I couldn't > get it on a disk properly. I have burned the 4.4, 4.3, and 4.2 > verison and > all of them are not viewable after I burn them. Since I haven't been able > to view the files on the disk, I haven't been able to make any boot disks. > For some reason none of these cd's are bootable either. > > Well so much for buying a book and having a decent copy of FreeBSD in it. > Getting close to scrapping the whole FreeBSD project and going with Redhat > just because I think I have a disk for it that will install without > requiring a PHD in Computer Science. If you download the images of the boot floppies for 4.4, and have a decently high speed Internet connection, why not just do an FTP install? That way, you won't have to mess with the CDs, etc. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message