From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 22:38:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD6F16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:38:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F10A43D1D for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:38:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.43.93.57]) by fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.comESMTP <20040712223554.TDBO10254.fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:35:54 -0400 Message-ID: <40F312EB.7020000@rogers.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:38:35 -0400 From: Mike Jeays User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Schromm References: <20040712222143.78460.qmail@web81704.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040712222143.78460.qmail@web81704.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.43.93.57] using ID at Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:35:54 -0400 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:38:37 -0000 Jerry Schromm wrote: > > > >Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. > >The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. > >I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. > >Thanks a lot, >Jerry Schromm >Corning, California > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Yes, it really is free! Something must have gone wrong when you downloaded the ISO image - I and many others have been able to burn a bootable CD, using either FreeBSD, Linux or one of the proprietary packages operating under Windows. There is usually an option for creating a CD from a CD image; this is the one to use. If you buy the CD set, you get 4 CDs with a large collection of packages, and have the convenience of having them there. But you can get everything at no charge from www.freebsd.org if you prefer. FreeBSD is a great OS - I have been using it as my home desktop since 1997.