i386 iso images for 5.3

[RacerX]

Chances are - you burned the iso file to the rom and not burned using the 
ISO. I would check what your doing when you burn.

Best regards,
Chris

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 yitzchak.lander at us.army.mil wrote:

>
>   hello,
>
>   i am having problems installing 5.3 on my laptop. it is an hp
>   pavillion ze5700. i am currently using windows xp home, and have
>   downloaded the 5.3 release disk1 iso image to my hard drive. i have
>   tried putting it on several cd's to boot from and have successfully
>   made all of them (to the best of my knowlege). when i boot up though i
>   get nothing but a blinking cursor . although on the disk that i made
>   as a hardrive emulation i get a message that says "no operating system
>   installed".
>
>   as a note, i have a comercial disk that has 5.0 on it and it boots,
>   but dosnt make it to the sysinstall menu.
>
>   if you want more info on the 5.0 boot messages i will try to get them
>   for you.
>
>   i heard a rumor that you are located in bolder colorado and since i am
>   in colorado springs i can drive up if nessasary to get my macine
>   running.
>
>   it is my intrest to learn freebsd well enugh to start contributing in
>   anyway i can.
>
>   thanks for your time,
>
>   issac lander
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