From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 14:31:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (mailbox.adm.binghamton.edu [128.226.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DEC537B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16169; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:31:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:28:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: David Kanter Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Using ISO images In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Kanter wrote: > Someone sent me a CD that has the 4.1-RELEASE ISO image burned onto it. > How do I (can I?) use this image to set up FreeBSD? > > I tried booting off the CD but it wouldn't work. Do I need to create the > boot disks, and then read off the CD? > > Or, was this ISO image supposed to be expanded before it was burned onto > the disk? The CD image should be about 600 mega bytes. When you burn it, make sure to use burn CD image option, not burn data CD option. Otherwise, it won't boot. That was my experience. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message