I need help on installation

[Fbsd1]

Roger Agraviador wrote:
> I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now that I
> try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an
> error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system
> disk which I do not have, how do I go about that because I virtually cannot
> install any operating system.
> 
> Do I have to install a boot loader like GRUB2? If so How do I go about that?
> Since I have found no iso image of GRUB2 to burn into a live cd.
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you have to change your bios boot options to boot from cd instead of the 
hard drive. after the freebsd install is complete then change it back

or if your bios allow a boot order change it to first look at cd drive 
and then hard drive to boot from