NEED HELP

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Feb 14 15:33:39 UTC 2007


Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi <sneezycrazyturtle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> HELLO
>>
>> I NEED YOUR HELP REGARDING INSTALLING FREE BSD ON MY NEWLY BOUGHT PC. MY
>> PC
>> SPECS ARE
> 
> 
> 
> 
> P4 D  3.4GHZ, 1024MB DDR2 667 RAM, GIGABYTE MOTHER BOARD 945PL-S3,
>> NX7300GT-TD256EH VIDEO CARD, SATA 250GB, 7200 RPM ( I DONT KNOW ITS SATA
>> OR
>> SATA II, CAUZ I DONT KNOW HOW TO CHECK, CAN U PLZ TELL ME.).
>>
>> I WANT TO INSTALL "6.2-RELEASE-i386-". ON MY PC. I AM TRYING TO READ AND
>> UNDERSTAND INSTALLATION NOTES. I HAVE DOWNLOADED FOLLOWING ITEMS FROM 
>> THIS
>> LINK "  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ "
>>
>>
>> Jan 12 2007 14:51     25444352 6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
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> 
> 
> <
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 
>>
>> >
>> Jan 12 2007 14:53    601229312 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>> <
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 
>>
>> >
>> Jan 12 2007 14:55    670107648 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
> 
> 
> Burn these 2 images into cdrom and boot with disk 1, that will boot up the
> cdrom, of course you need to  alter the boot sequence in Bios to it boots
> via cdrom.
> 
> Even before doing anything there refer  to
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
> 
> By the way avoid using  full capital letters or upper case letters on
> emails, that just means you are shouting  or yelling or screaming at people
> for responses in email.
> 
> 
> regards
> Dak

Shouting classifies your message as spam in many cases by spam assassin, 
which means that we won't answer your question in a timely manner.

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-Garrett


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