RE: 4.10 Install failure.
Hey All, I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. (This was pretty useful because the floppy drive in the PC was unusable) Hope this helps Peter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
Hey Guys, The CD's both have valid data structures (i.e. directories, etc...). I'm positive that I burnt the image correctly, as it's not just an .ISO file and the checksums check out correctly. I checked for the options in the BIOD but they're not there. The BIOS is Compaq Computer Corporation Setup Ultility Any other ideas as to what I might try? Thanks Tyler On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:57:24 +0800, Peter Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. (This was pretty useful because the floppy drive in the PC was unusable) Hope this helps Peter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 4.10 Install failure.
I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. Unless you have a crippled version of Nero, it will let you burn ISO images. You don't need UltraISO. Just cancel the stupid wizard at startup and choose File/BurnImage from the main Nero window. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. Also unnecessary. Nero lets you choose CDROM(boot) if you select File/New from the main menu. Just point it to the floppy image you want to burn and you are good to go. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
After reading that, I think it might be possible that I burnt the images correctly, but I simply did not make the CD's bootable. I was using k3b to burn the images, but I might just have a go at it with Nero. Thanks! On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:23:08 -0400, Ralph Hempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. Unless you have a crippled version of Nero, it will let you burn ISO images. You don't need UltraISO. Just cancel the stupid wizard at startup and choose File/BurnImage from the main Nero window. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. Also unnecessary. Nero lets you choose CDROM(boot) if you select File/New from the main menu. Just point it to the floppy image you want to burn and you are good to go. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
After reading that, I think it might be possible that I burnt the images correctly, but I simply did not make the CD's bootable. I was using k3b to burn the images, but I might just have a go at it with Nero. Thanks! The CD image that you download from the FreeBSD site is already a bootable ISO. It needs to be written to the CD as a raw file and not converted or processed in any way. It should not be put in a file system on the CD or processed to be bootable, or etc. It is already a complete CD image. jerry On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:23:08 -0400, Ralph Hempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. Unless you have a crippled version of Nero, it will let you burn ISO images. You don't need UltraISO. Just cancel the stupid wizard at startup and choose File/BurnImage from the main Nero window. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. Also unnecessary. Nero lets you choose CDROM(boot) if you select File/New from the main menu. Just point it to the floppy image you want to burn and you are good to go. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the image already being bootable. I supposed I should do my homework before making my posts:) Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back to where I started with no idea how to move forward... On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:36:47 -0400 (EDT), Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading that, I think it might be possible that I burnt the images correctly, but I simply did not make the CD's bootable. I was using k3b to burn the images, but I might just have a go at it with Nero. Thanks! The CD image that you download from the FreeBSD site is already a bootable ISO. It needs to be written to the CD as a raw file and not converted or processed in any way. It should not be put in a file system on the CD or processed to be bootable, or etc. It is already a complete CD image. jerry On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:23:08 -0400, Ralph Hempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am havign some trouble installing FreeBSD 4.10 on my PC. I downloaded an ISO image (and verified the checksum) from the Canadian FreeBSD FTP site. After burning the image to CD, I checked the checksums, which were the same. When I put the CD in the drive and attempt to boot from it, I just get a register dump and the computer halts. I have just got over a similar painful learning experience. I made a dumb mistake that might help you. I first just burnt the ISO file to a CD like I would any other file. (I had no idea what an ISO image was :)) After i discovered that you need special software to burn an ISO image, I downloaded the trial version of UltraISO software. It wanted to use Nero Burning ROM to actually do the burn. Once I had these 2 bits of software installed, I could actually use the CD's I burnt. Unless you have a crippled version of Nero, it will let you burn ISO images. You don't need UltraISO. Just cancel the stupid wizard at startup and choose File/BurnImage from the main Nero window. I also burnt CD's of the 2 flp images. I happened to use Sonic Record Now to do that, and there was a button I could press that read the flp image and created a bootable CD. Also unnecessary. Nero lets you choose CDROM(boot) if you select File/New from the main menu. Just point it to the floppy image you want to burn and you are good to go. Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
--- Tyler Parrott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the image already being bootable. I supposed I should do my homework before making my posts:) Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back to where I started with no idea how to move forward... snipped stuff ensuring good cd burn, and system unable to boot from cd First off, I have never pretended to know what I am talking about... I am just a random subscriber. Take what I say with a grain of salt. That being out of the way, a quick little comment. You previously mentioned you had a compaq evo (?). Have you tried making bootable floppies and trying them? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES Also, have you tried experimenting with your bios settings? Perhaps Advanced, Device options? Specifically the ACPI settings... (I kinda doubt this will have any effect, however). Was the error similar to the following? (after loading bootstrap loader) | int=000d err= efl=00030246 eip=3034 eax=205d ebx=0004 ecx=2000 edx=288c esi=08d5 edi=0006290c ebp=1538 esp=1502 cs=f000 ds=ee00 es=ee00 fs= gs= ss=ee00 cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75 08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75 ss:esp=0c 29 06 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00 04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00 BTX halted Hopefully someone who knows more than I (accounts for pretty much everyone on this list...) comprehends what this means. I'm without clue. Hth, and good luck. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
Thanks for all the advice, it is much appreciated. I'll give the floppies a try. That error that you pasted is pretty much exactly what I get, although I'm not sure whether or not the register values are the same:) Again, I'll try with the floppies:) Thanks! On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:46:05 -0700 (PDT), K. Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Tyler Parrott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the image already being bootable. I supposed I should do my homework before making my posts:) Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back to where I started with no idea how to move forward... snipped stuff ensuring good cd burn, and system unable to boot from cd First off, I have never pretended to know what I am talking about... I am just a random subscriber. Take what I say with a grain of salt. That being out of the way, a quick little comment. You previously mentioned you had a compaq evo (?). Have you tried making bootable floppies and trying them? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES Also, have you tried experimenting with your bios settings? Perhaps Advanced, Device options? Specifically the ACPI settings... (I kinda doubt this will have any effect, however). Was the error similar to the following? (after loading bootstrap loader) | int=000d err= efl=00030246 eip=3034 eax=205d ebx=0004 ecx=2000 edx=288c esi=08d5 edi=0006290c ebp=1538 esp=1502 cs=f000 ds=ee00 es=ee00 fs= gs= ss=ee00 cs:eip=0f 20 dd 81 e5 00 f0 0f-20 c2 0f 01 e0 a8 01 75 08 80 e2 fe e8 53 ff eb-21 0f 20 e0 a9 30 00 75 ss:esp=0c 29 06 00 d5 08 00 00-38 15 00 00 22 15 00 00 04 00 00 00 8c 28 00 00-04 00 00 00 5d 28 00 00 BTX halted Hopefully someone who knows more than I (accounts for pretty much everyone on this list...) comprehends what this means. I'm without clue. Hth, and good luck. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.10 Install failure.
At 10:43 8/16/2004, Tyler Parrott, wrote: Yeah, right after I sent that email I read about the image already being bootable. I supposed I should do my homework before making my posts:) Anyways, the image is burnt correctly, so I'm back to where I started with no idea how to move forward... On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:36:47 -0400 (EDT), Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading that, I think it might be possible that I burnt the images correctly, but I simply did not make the CD's bootable. I was using k3b to burn the images, but I might just have a go at it with Nero. Thanks! The CD image that you download from the FreeBSD site is already a bootable ISO. It needs to be written to the CD as a raw file and not converted or processed in any way. It should not be put in a file system on the CD or processed to be bootable, or etc. It is already a complete CD image. jerry Try your 4.10 CD on a different computer? Burn a 4.9 CD? Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
