Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:22:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Ben Turner <turnball_@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110011018280.61470-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <OE41ux4Jf7zynrvDOv500007031@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ben Turner wrote: > 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. Sounds to me like you're copying the ISO image, not creating a file system from it. If you can't view the files after you burn the image (view the directory listings and open text files, in Windows or FreeBSD) you haven't got what you need. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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