I can't boot from the CD...
I downloaded FreeBSD from your site (I downloaded it to my MAC) The PC that I will put it on is a new Compaq Presairo - with a AMD Semptron 3000+ Chip. The ISO that I downloaded onto the MAC was dragged and drppped - then Burned on a CD. I did not "prep the file or convert it" in any way. I switched the boot order to CD - and I still cannot get the Free BSD Disk to boot... What do I need to do? Glen Stewart P.S. Please Help ASAP! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I can't boot from the CD...
Glen Stewart wrote: I downloaded FreeBSD from your site (I downloaded it to my MAC) The PC that I will put it on is a new Compaq Presairo - with a AMD Semptron 3000+ Chip. The ISO that I downloaded onto the MAC was dragged and drppped - then Burned on a CD. I did not "prep the file or convert it" in any way. I switched the boot order to CD - and I still cannot get the Free BSD Disk to boot... What do I need to do? Glen Stewart P.S. Please Help ASAP! The ISO (any ISO, really) isn't a file that gets burned to CD "as is". It's an "image" or representation of a *file system* that needs to be processed and then burned to CD. I don't know what the Mac procedure for burning an ISO is, but in Windoze I generally rely on right-clicking the ISO file and having a pop-up menu offer me a choice like "create CD from image". Almost as simple as drag-n-drop, but not quite. Barring any other more detailed help that may pop up from this list, just go into the Mac software that you use to burn CDs and search their help for "ISO" to get tips on appropriate ISO image burning techniques. It should be blissfully simple. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I can't boot from the CD...
Glen Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded FreeBSD from your site (I downloaded it to my MAC) > The PC that I will put it on is a new Compaq Presairo - with a AMD > Semptron 3000+ Chip. > The ISO that I downloaded onto the MAC was dragged and drppped - then > Burned on a CD. > I did not "prep the file or convert it" in any way. One rather common mistake is to put the ISO file on a CD as a file rather than burning the image (which is in fact a binary copy of a CD file system) to the disk. Most, if not all, CD writer programs have a "burn image" option or similar. If you burned the ISO correctly, your Mac should see a number of files and folders on the CD. If all you see is one rather large file, the CD will not be usable. > I switched the boot order to CD - and I still cannot get the Free BSD > Disk to boot... > What do I need to do? What messages, if any, do you get? The help you get here generally improves with the precision in reporting such things as error messages. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: I can't boot from the CD...
Do you know how to burn an ISO? Best regards, Chris On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Glen Stewart wrote: I downloaded FreeBSD from your site (I downloaded it to my MAC) The PC that I will put it on is a new Compaq Presairo - with a AMD Semptron 3000+ Chip. The ISO that I downloaded onto the MAC was dragged and drppped - then Burned on a CD. I did not "prep the file or convert it" in any way. I switched the boot order to CD - and I still cannot get the Free BSD Disk to boot... What do I need to do? Glen Stewart P.S. Please Help ASAP! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
