Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I have never seen something like that on a FreeBSD Boot. Are you shure the machine is bootig from CD an the CD is the right one? try redownloading the ISO (Disc 1). -- mmm, interesante. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:00:07 +0800 Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk replied: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year Reboot and get into the BISO setup utility. Insure that the drives are set to boot in the correct order. In your case, the drive you are inserting the CD into to bootup. If you are only going to be using FreeBSD on the system, you could just wipe the drive clean and then install FreeBSD also. A free utility, FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org/ is rather simple to use. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 06:00:07PM +0800, Paul Shi wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ Remove the floppy disk from the drive, so it cannot boot from it, and try again. Are you sure you _saved_ the BIOS settings after changing the boot order? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgp0LyOlw5yGm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote: I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Nero seems to have helped you by making a bootable CD with a copy of the FreeBSD ISO file on it. The A: disk is actually a simulated floppy on the CD. That's not going to work. Make a new CD. Back in Windows, you might be able to right-click the original ISO file and get a Burn a CD option. Otherwise, you'll have to run the program and tell it to make the ISO into a CD, not make a CD with the ISO on it as a file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote: I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Nero seems to have helped you by making a bootable CD with a copy of the FreeBSD ISO file on it. The A: disk is actually a simulated floppy on the CD. That's not going to work. Make a new CD. Back in Windows, you might be able to right-click the original ISO file and get a Burn a CD option. Otherwise, you'll have to run the program and tell it to make the ISO into a CD, not make a CD with the ISO on it as a file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA In Nero version 6 it's Recorder / Burn Image and just before you click Burn you have to select whether you are writing a CD or a DVD. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
Paul Shi wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\ I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You did not burn the iso file to cd correctly. Here is link to old post containing details instructions for using nero to burn iso file. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/100238/match=nero+iso ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
