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Subject: Re: booting
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On 12/17/2011 04:04 PM, Maxime-Etienne de Gier wrote:
> I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
> when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the
> DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up (Laptop PackardBell).
> Any insight?  Thanks and much regard.
>
>
> Maxime.
>
>
What errors do you get, if any? Is the BIOS set accordingly?

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