RE: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Kiffin
I checked it and everything looks just fine, e.g. just Freebsd install files and nothing else. On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 18:42 +0800, joeb wrote: Yea I would say your burn of the .iso file to your cd did not work. Mount the cd and see if it contains a directory tree of Freebsd install files or mp3

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:51:54PM +0200, Kiffin wrote: I checked it and everything looks just fine, e.g. just Freebsd install files and nothing else. It's very possible that the disc burning software you used did something incorrectly, or did something custom. What program burnt the CD? If a

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Kiffin
I rechecked the discs with a verify tool using the original iso files and nothing is wrong with the discs. On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 08:01 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:51:54PM +0200, Kiffin wrote: I checked it and everything looks just fine, e.g. just Freebsd install

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:36:37PM +0200, Kiffin wrote: I rechecked the discs with a verify tool using the original iso files and nothing is wrong with the discs. A couple comments: 1) This isn't telling me anything. For all I know the verify tool only compares ISO file contents to what's on

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Kiffin
Thanks for the prompt response. However, I have a brand-new ASUS X59XL notebook so the CD drive isn't old. Could it be that the CD drive is too new and not recognized properly bt FreeBSD rather than too old? On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:58 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 08:23:51PM +0200, Kiffin wrote: Thanks for the prompt response. However, I have a brand-new ASUS X59XL notebook so the CD drive isn't old. Could it be that the CD drive is too new and not recognized properly bt FreeBSD rather than too old? 1) There's nothing special

RE: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-07 Thread joeb
Yea I would say your burn of the .iso file to your cd did not work. Mount the cd and see if it contains a directory tree of Freebsd install files or mp3 files. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008