From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 8 12:29:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail01.domainbank.com (mail.domainbank.com [209.92.184.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F8E37B422 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 12:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdmiller@domainbank.com) Received: from mordor (mordor.domainbank.com [192.168.2.18]) by mail01.domainbank.com (Vircom SMTPRS 4.5.186) with SMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 15:29:37 -0400 Message-ID: <00e201c0d7f5$385f1a50$1202a8c0@domainbank.com> From: "Jeff Miller" To: "Manny Obrey" , References: Subject: Re: newbie cd question Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:29:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org the iso image is already bootable... just open it w/ EZ CD Creator and burn to a cd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manny Obrey" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:13 PM Subject: newbie cd question > > I am trying to install 4.3 from an iso i've downloaded from an ftp mirror. I > have the iso on my windows desktop and I've got Adaptec Easy cd creator. > Each time I try to create a bootable cd it asks me to insert bootable > floppies into drive a. I then insert a floppy w/ the kern.flp image. After > this I get the error message saying " ... Either the boot image could not be > written to the temp dir or the floppy could not be read." well I know the > floppy disk is good b/c I can boot into the freebsd install pgm using this > disk. > > I don't seem to be able to create a bootable cd for a non-windows machine. > When I'm asked to insert a bootable floppy Easy CD creator seems to want > floppies containing config.sys and autoexec.bat. > > any hlp apprec, > Manny > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message