4.10 Install failure.

[Peter Ryan]

> > Hey All,
> >
> > I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC.  I 
> > downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the
> Canadian
> > FreeBSD FTP site.  After burning the image to CD, I checked the 
> > checksums, which were the same.
> >
> > When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just
> get
> > a register dump and the computer halts.


I have just got over a similar painful learning experience.
I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the 
ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what 
an ISO image was :))

After i discovered that you need special software to burn
an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO
software.  It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually
do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed,
I could actually use the CD's I burnt.

I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic
Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press
that read the flp image and created a bootable CD.  

(This was pretty useful because the floppy drive in the PC
was unusable)

Hope this helps
Peter