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From: William Coles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 6:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 from ISO image
Hello,
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. I'm still having trouble, but
I'm determined to figure this thing out! I can't wait to be running FreeBSD.
Here is what I have tried so far:
As per Daniel's suggestion, I verified that other bootable CD's work on my
system, which they do. I was able to boot using an old Slackware 7.0 CD I
have. Daniel also suggested that maybe the issue has something to do with my
ISO burning process. I think that is exactly where the problem is, so I'm
trying to get it right.
As Dzokayi suggested, I made sure I burned the file as an image and didn't
just burn the file as is to the CD-RW. The original file I downloaded from
the FTP site came compressed as a WinRAR archive. After downloading it, I
extracted it to my HDD. In windows, it shows all kinds of folders (i.e. bin,
boot, catpages, etc). The files themselves are not readable in windows,
obviously, because they are made with a different file system.
Then I followed the suggestion given by Laszlo, which was to burn the actual
archive without extracting it. Fortunately, I saved the original file so
this was easy enough to do. But...it didn't work either. After burning the
4.7 mini.iso (compressed WinRAR) file, putting the CD in the tray and
rebooting...nada, hangs on 'booting from ATAPI CD'
Lastly, I realized that I have been burning data CD's and that Nero had an
option for burning bootable CD's. Duh! So I went back to Nero and started
over. The problem I'm running into now is that when I create a new
compilation in Nero to set up a bootable CD, Nero gives two choices to pick
from the source of boot image data; a) a bootable logical drive (must be
under 650 MB, which I don't have) and b) an Image File. When I click on the
browse button to select an image file, Nero only wants to look for files
with the extension of .ima. I'm thinking that the file I downloaded from the
FTP site is indeed an image file, no? What I'm going to try next is to
rename the archive file I downloaded to end in .ima and burn it. There is
also a field to choose a type of emulation. The choices are Floppy, Hardisk
or No Emulation. I have been choosing No Emulation, as per the Nero manual,
this is for bootable installation CD's (i.e. what I'm trying to make). Any
further suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again,
Bill (one day running BSD)
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