Dear Nigel, Right off the bat, I want to thank you for (humiliating me) solving my problem. No I'm not humiliated, just ticked off that I hadn't thought of what I was doing wrong first.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm one of those people who are too used to having the computer (Windows) do everything for me. Once upon a time (about 24 years ago) we had a TRS-80 and HAD to deal with DOS - how I long for those days again, because unfortunately I became Windows brainwashed. I had no inkling as to what an ISO image was, or what it was for, or how to use it. So yes, *cringe* I just burned the ISO image 'file' onto the CD. Amazing what can happen when you know what you're doing. Everything looks as if it is loading okay now. Oops, no not everything. It's telling me that it can't get 'compat4X' and 'port distributions' loaded because it has run out of room. Hmmm. I guess it's time for me to putter around some more, but I'm huge steps ahead of where I was 2 hours ago (and 3 days of banging my head). I don't mind puttering, heck I got my CD-ROM connected properly now (darn computer store techies) after reading through some of the FAQs and letters here. Yeah, it's time-consuming, but I can honestly say I feel like I've learned a great deal already - unfortunately, not about FreeBSD yet :) But hey, it all counts. Was there anything about ISO imaging anywhere that I just missed or slipped over without actually reading? I didn't notice anything on the FreeBSD site or handbook. Nigel, Staples will not be happy with you - they lost a sale of about 50 floppies :) I was just about to head out when I got your e-mail. Again thank you, thank you, thank you. Time to use the rest of the handbook now and start solving the next onslaught of issues. And thanks to the rest that sent their thoughts, suggestions, and condolences :) Just knowing someone else out there was in the same boat at one time sometimes is a help. Best regards, Scott McClellan p.s. to whomever suggested burning at a slower speed, I did try that (albeit by 'burning' the file rather than 'opening' it), so needless to say - but I'll say it anyway - it didn't work, only slower :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
