Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Holmlund
I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned wouldn't boot my machine. It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Maxell 650MB/74 minute CD. That did the trick. Any

RE: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Holmlund
I forgot to say that when trying to boot from the bad CD, the server indicated that the Boot Record was not found and then booted off the existing OS on the hard drive. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Steve Holmlund wrote: I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned wouldn't boot my machine. It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Maxell

Re: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Kent Stewart
Steve Holmlund wrote: I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned wouldn't boot my machine. It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Maxell 650MB/74 minute CD.