cant install

[Peter Risdon]

Peter Risdon wrote:

> jt wrote:
>
>> Hello. Not sure if this the right place to ask. Im farely new Unix 
>> and never used BSD before. I ran linux red hat like 2 or 3 years ago.
>> Anyway, Im using the i386 version. Ive have not only burned the CDs, 
>> Burt also made NUMEROUS burnings of the floppies.
>>
> That was kind of him.
>
>> Thing is, My machine dont read the CDs or floppies. Ive changed the 
>> bios to read CD or Floppy first, But still remains a mystery why I 
>> cant install. Every time I try to boot with floppy in, it just says 
>> Hit Any Key To Reboot. Like the floppy isnt even there.BTW this is 
>> 5.2 Im refering too. Even tho I heard 4.9 or something is the most 
>> stable.
>>
>> Ive been trying to install this for almost 4 days now. And cant find 
>> help for it ANYwhere.  Any suggestions would be helpfull.  
>>
> You'll have downloaded disk images for the CDs and floppies. You then 
> need to make sure your CD burning software knows it is dealing with an 
> iso image, and you need to make the floppies using rawrite 

Correction - fdimage not rawrite (both do the same thing but fdimage is 
available from the ftp site you used to obtain your image files. 
Apologies for the pre-coffee mistake.

> under Windows or dd if you still have your Linux machine. Burning the 
> CD as though the iso file is just an ordinary file, and copying the 
> floppy image to a disk without using the correct utility, will not work.
>
> If it sounds as though this might be your problem, read:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html 
>
>
> PWR.
>