From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 10:33:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BB937B416 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA61571; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:22:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:22:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Ben Turner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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