Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:58:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dominic <I-C-H@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi Message-ID: <20000308165825.B2947@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <38C576D8.CDE0A263@mail.ru>; from I-C-H@mail.ru on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:38:32PM %2B0100 References: <38C51624.1802C620@mail.ru> <20000307172342.A14262@gv.edu.pl> <38C576D8.CDE0A263@mail.ru>
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:38:32PM +0100, Dominic wrote:
>
> I'll give it a try tomorrow! Hope to get it finally installed.
Dominic, being out to a party last night, I missed the start of the
thread, but...
What you have to do is burn the .iso image to a CD, using 'image' mode
or whatever the program you're using calls it.
When the CD is burned, you should not see on the disk you prepared only
one file called SOMETHING.iso, but a bunch of other files. These are
the contents of the disk.
If you want to see what the image contains, you can even use your
Linux's loop device (if it's compiled into your kernel, or as a
module), and mount the image while your linux has been booted.
Try using:
# mount /where/the/iso/image/is/stored.iso /mnt -o loop=/dev/loop0
and then browse /mnt to see what files the ISO-image contains.
As far as installation is concerned, if you think that the image you've
burned is not bootable, or it does not boot properly for any other
reason [it seems I can recall some messages about 3.4-X ISO's having
problems at booting], you can prepare a pair of boot disks, and use
them for starting the installation.
Don't worry about your CDROM, since I have a Mitsumi 48x and it works
quite nicely with FreeBSD. Once you get your installation to boot
[from the CD-burned ISO, or from boot disks, whatever] you should have
no problems with FreeBSD "seeing" your cdrom device :)
Ciao.
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