Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jul 29, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:

>>
>> Dear FreeBSD
>> Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp
>> server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?
>> I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be  
>> very
>> much appreciated.
>> I'll download everything and put it on a CD and burn it under Nero  
>> as a
>> bootable CD.
>
> Just download the CD ISO image and burn it.
> The image is already a bootable ISO so don't try to do
> any conversions.  Just burn it and boot it.
>
> I don't know Nero so I don't know what choices it offers.
> But, generally you just want a plain burn plus fixate.
>
> ////jerry
>
>> Please Help ME

All ISO's posted the FreeBSD sites (and other BSD and Linux sites for  
that matter) are bootable media; the only time that you should be  
creating bootable media is when you, yourself, are making a bootdisk  
from files.
-Garrett