Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
CDBurnerXP (just google it) is decent free CD burning software for Windows. If you're properly burning the ISO as an image and not just dragging and dropping an ISO file onto a data disc and burning it then I don't think it matters what software you use. Windows 7 even includes an extremely simple ISO image burner app. Don't open the ISO and alter it in anyway, that should be entirely unnecessary and if anything will break it. Also of course when the machine boots you're going to need to either manually choose the boot device or make sure the CDROM is higher in the boot priority than the local hard drive or RAID card in the system BIOS. Given the age of that machine (Current gen is G9 for the DL380), odds are not horrible that the CDROM is fried too or at least so dirty/dusty that it doesn't read anything right. External USB CDROM drive or a can of air will get you running in that case. Again, you'd still need to configure the boot priority in the BIOS. On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Mark Hisel mark_hi...@yahoo.com wrote: Exactly correct. The HP hardware can only use CD-R, not DVD-R I also found some Dell documentation saying to use DVD-R for better compatibility. The truth may not set you free, but it is the way out. -- *From:* Walter Parker walt...@gmail.com *To:* pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List list@lists.pfsense.org *Sent:* Friday, October 31, 2014 8:56 AM *Subject:* Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this I use imgburn to burn all of my pfSense CDs (and Windows, Linux and FreeBSD DVDs). I second the recommendation. If you have picked the correct image, it should boot unless there is something strange with the HP hardware. The fact that a Windows disk boots doesn't prove that hardware isn't strange or have some sort of other issue. I'd double check that everything is correct. Walter On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Harlan Stenn har...@pfcs.com wrote: I use imgburn to put a .iso on a CD. I use imgburn to burn all of my windows optical media. H On 10/30/14 4:01 PM, Mark Hisel wrote: I'm trying to make an install CD but no joy. Upfront, this is not a pfSense issue but maybe someone can help. Thanks to those who have already responded. I used WinISO, which lets me fiddle with the boot record, so I burned a CD and then made an ISO from it and the ISO has a boot record. But it won't boot. I went through the same exercise with Oracle Linux and got the same results. The same machine boots up a Windows OS just fine. I'm trying to boot onto a DL380 G3 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
That or the wrong image was burned to the disc... Mark - which ISO did you download? As for doing a boot image on USB I found that to be pretty simple but I made the image on my Mac and not in Windows. -- Ryan On 10/30/2014 7:58 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: Sounds like the CD drive in that server probably isn't working right (assuming it is configured in the BIOS to boot from it), try an external CD-ROM, or use the memstick image to boot from USB flash instead. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Mark Hisel mark_hi...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to make an install CD but no joy. Upfront, this is not a pfSense issue but maybe someone can help. Thanks to those who have already responded. I used WinISO, which lets me fiddle with the boot record, so I burned a CD and then made an ISO from it and the ISO has a boot record. But it won't boot. I went through the same exercise with Oracle Linux and got the same results. The same machine boots up a Windows OS just fine. I'm trying to boot onto a DL380 G3 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
I use imgburn to put a .iso on a CD. I use imgburn to burn all of my windows optical media. H On 10/30/14 4:01 PM, Mark Hisel wrote: I'm trying to make an install CD but no joy. Upfront, this is not a pfSense issue but maybe someone can help. Thanks to those who have already responded. I used WinISO, which lets me fiddle with the boot record, so I burned a CD and then made an ISO from it and the ISO has a boot record. But it won't boot. I went through the same exercise with Oracle Linux and got the same results. The same machine boots up a Windows OS just fine. I'm trying to boot onto a DL380 G3 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
I use imgburn to burn all of my pfSense CDs (and Windows, Linux and FreeBSD DVDs). I second the recommendation. If you have picked the correct image, it should boot unless there is something strange with the HP hardware. The fact that a Windows disk boots doesn't prove that hardware isn't strange or have some sort of other issue. I'd double check that everything is correct. Walter On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Harlan Stenn har...@pfcs.com wrote: I use imgburn to put a .iso on a CD. I use imgburn to burn all of my windows optical media. H On 10/30/14 4:01 PM, Mark Hisel wrote: I'm trying to make an install CD but no joy. Upfront, this is not a pfSense issue but maybe someone can help. Thanks to those who have already responded. I used WinISO, which lets me fiddle with the boot record, so I burned a CD and then made an ISO from it and the ISO has a boot record. But it won't boot. I went through the same exercise with Oracle Linux and got the same results. The same machine boots up a Windows OS just fine. I'm trying to boot onto a DL380 G3 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
*From:* Walter Parker walt...@gmail.com *To:* pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List list@lists.pfsense.org *Sent:* Friday, October 31, 2014 8:56 AM *Subject:* Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this The fact that a Windows disk boots doesn't prove that hardware isn't strange or have some sort of other issue. I'd double check that everything is correct. I've seen several machines that will only optical-boot a Windows install disk. Nothing else. For these machines, I have been able to take a disk drive created on another machine, put it in the difficult machine, and it will boot. But that's booting a spinner, not optical media. H ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
[pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
I'm trying to make an install CD but no joy. Upfront, this is not a pfSense issue but maybe someone can help. Thanks to those who have already responded. I used WinISO, which lets me fiddle with the boot record, so I burned a CD and then made an ISO from it and the ISO has a boot record. But it won't boot. I went through the same exercise with Oracle Linux and got the same results. The same machine boots up a Windows OS just fine. I'm trying to boot onto a DL380 G3 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Install CD - I don't know where to go with this
Sounds like the CD drive in that server probably isn't working right (assuming it is configured in the BIOS to boot from it), try an external CD-ROM, or use the memstick image to boot from USB flash instead. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Mark Hisel mark_hi...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to make an install CD but no joy. Upfront, this is not a pfSense issue but maybe someone can help. Thanks to those who have already responded. I used WinISO, which lets me fiddle with the boot record, so I burned a CD and then made an ISO from it and the ISO has a boot record. But it won't boot. I went through the same exercise with Oracle Linux and got the same results. The same machine boots up a Windows OS just fine. I'm trying to boot onto a DL380 G3 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
