Installing free bsd

[Frank Shute]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:05:29PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> First of all, always include the list in a response to something
> from the list.   Other people will be reading and may well know
> more than me or any other person who responds.   eg, don't just 
> send the follow-on question back to the one responding.  Send it
> to the list.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:26:06PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote:
> 
> > do direct ftp to disk? And what do you mean by fixate?
> 
> No.  You ftp the file down to the local machine and then use a CD burning 
> utility to burn file to the CD.   On FreeBSD there is one called 'burncd'.
> I am not familiar with the ones on a MS system, but there are several
> available.   Maybe someone else will suggest one or there is probably
> some information in the handbook.
> 
> Fixate is something that finishes writing a terminal record on
> the CD image or something like that.  I don't really know in
> detail.   I think some burner utilities do it automatically with
> no choice.   The burncd utility needs to have you specify it.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> 
> > 
> > On 12/12/11, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > >> Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It
> > >> was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it.
> > >> Unfortunately It wont auto start when i put disk in computer startup.
> > >> Need support.. Is the windows format on disk causing problems?
> > >
> > > Well, the .iso files you get from the FreeBSD distribution are ISO
> > > image files that need to be burned directly to a disk.  There is no
> > > other processing or formatting that may be done.
> > >
> > > I do not know what you mean by 'unzipped to a cd rom'.  I have never
> > > done anything that sounded like that.
> > >
> > > You should just download the .iso file and burn in to a fresh cd
> > > and fixate it.  Then boot it.
> > >
> > > ////jerry
> > >

I've used Nero in the past on a Windows system to burn an ISO. You can
download it (probably timebombed) from http://www.tucows.com/ I think.

Instructions on burning and fixating are here:

http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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