Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Hey great advice thanks. I was wondering about that Boot cd burn. Now I guess I have to study some since it just Halts. I read some other guy had the same thing happen lol. I know I was reading that you need to reformat and partition a space for FreeBSD. I don't think this does all the reformatting itself. I didn't read that it did. I know most people like me start asking questions before they have read, But I was reading. That ASCII vs Binary I knew nothing about before. Someone did tell methe other day in an email through this. I can't believe the support you all give. This intrigues me. I want to accomplish this soon. Get in the game. I have three pc's since I can build them so I will dedicate at least one to this op. I hope all someday maybe since I have been having programs crash lately on windows 2000. I can't understand it. Fresh reformats too. Not sure if Microsofts upgrades are even causing conflictions. Anyway if you have one quick answer about that HALT deal where pressing ENTER doesn't start loading anything. In fact I couldn't select anything from that menu. I wonder if that will ever function for me? I hope. I will start reading too step by step also. First of all, please send your messages to the list and not just to an individual. It allows more people - who probably know more than me - to see, and maybe respond to, your questions. I may not be around for a while to see the question of may not know enough about, or be interested in continuing with, the thread. Plus it only gets added the archive if it is posted to the list. All messages to the list are archived and become part of the knowledge base for the system. Secondly, please break your lines at around 70 characters length. It makes it much easier to read and respond, especially for those who are using a text based Email reader. You can either set your Email client to do this or just hit a RETURN/ENTER at about that length for each line - just like with the oldfashioned typewriters. I have no idea what you are talking about with the 'Halt' You do not give any information about what is happening. What are you doing when it 'halts'? Are you attempting to burn or are you booting or have you already installed and are rebooting??? jerry Thanks a lot, Sincerely, Jerry Schromm Corning, CA Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. Yup it is free. No scam. Probably you did something wrong. I am not familiar with all the various CD burner software packages, but I have notice two problems show up the most often. The first is downloading the ISO image in ASCI mode. This produces a corrupt image that won't work. Make sure you specify binary mode when you do the ftp. With command line FTPs, it is just a matter of typing binary when you are in the ftp session. The other most popular problem is trying to create a bootable ISO from the image. It is already a bootable ISO image and needs to be burned straight to the CD without the utility trying to make an ISO or add any boot blocks or whatever with it. Just burn the straight data. You should also tell it to fixate. This stuff really does work once you get the details right. Good luck, jerry Thanks a lot, Jerry Schromm Corning, California --0-1688480731-1089823997=:24087 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVJerry McAllister,/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVHey great advice thanks. I was wondering about that Boot cd burn. Now I guess I have to study some since it just Halts. I read some other guy had the same thing happen lol. I know I was reading that you need to reformat and partition a space for FreeBSD. I don't think this does all the reformatting itself. I didn't read that it did. I know most people like me start
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
On 12 Jul 2004 at 20:25, Bill Moran wrote: Jerry Schromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Bill thanks for writing. bootonly.iso ---I burned this one and it seems to be working. I booted up with it but the box with the options only stay for a few seconds. I selected Enter for default but didn't do anything. Maybe it's something to do with choosing TRACK AT ONCE, or DISC AT ONCE, and there is DISC AT ONCE/96(I just noticed on NERO they have a mode for Boot Discs. I didn't use it for this iso burn. Maybe I should use that one) disc1.iso -I tried to burn this one and it errored. I couldn't burn it on Nero. I am using NERO6 to burn the ISOs When it starts, select new compilation, then drag your ISO to the 'to be burned' column and select 'Recorder-Burn Image..' Then accept all defaults. This is from the Mandrake docs: --- Open Nero. Close the wizard if it is started automatically. Go to File then to Burn Image In the next dialog, click on Image Files (*.nrg) and select All files (*.*). Choose the .iso file and accept. In the following dialog make sure: - Type of Image is: Data Mode 1 - Block size: 2048 - Image header: 0 - Image trailer: 0 - All the checkboxes are unactive. Click OK. In the next dialog check that the write and finalize option are active. Click on Write. - It is for an earlier version of NERO, but you will see the same information. Most of the options have been 'grayed' in NERO6, so you can not change them. GL and keep at it... Kjell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. Yup it is free.No scam. Probably you did something wrong. I am not familiar with all the various CD burner software packages, but I have notice two problems show up the most often. The first is downloading the ISO image in ASCI mode. This produces a corrupt image that won't work. Make sure you specify binary mode when you do the ftp. With command line FTPs, it is just a matter of typing binary when you are in the ftp session. The other most popular problem is trying to create a bootable ISO from the image. It is already a bootable ISO image and needs to be burned straight to the CD without the utility trying to make an ISO or add any boot blocks or whatever with it. Just burn the straight data. You should also tell it to fixate. This stuff really does work once you get the details right. Good luck, jerry Thanks a lot, Jerry Schromm Corning, California ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. Welcome Jerremy to the FreeBSD community. I am taking it on myself as a fellow new user to say It is a pleasure to meet you and you are in for one exciting ride. FreeBSD is the greatest Operating System I have ever experienced (Holly cow I sound like a salesmen). You obviously have the curiosity to get yourself started. If you also have the ability to search for answers in the very abundant FreeBSD resources on the net you will have a great time. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. I had a problem with 5.2.1 as well about two months ago (I think) I was using Nero and had a problem burning the disk. So I downloaded the ISO from another server and then was able to burn fine (Oh and I happened to switched media as well). Then I started having a problem booting to the Burned CD. I took the liberty of pulling an old 48X CD drive (I was trying to use my LiteOn CDRW drive) and was able to boot to the CD. However, I then experienced some other issues that I think was due to the new ACPI features in 5X and the fact that my system does not support PS2 or other legacy devices so I was having a problem disabling the ACPI functionality. I then made the incredibly wise choice to switch to the 4.X branch and about 5 days later 4.10 came out. I downloaded 4.10 and installed and have been having a great time ever since. Since you are new I would recomend not to follow 5.X until it is in a -STABLE branch (Perhaps it is and I am just misinformed someone correct me if I am wrong). Unless you need some of the specific new features then 4.X is the way to go. That is my humble opinion. I think SMP was added or updated, and ELF either was added (I read something yesterday that Says 4.X has ELF support so maybe someone could clarify) The 5.X branch may give you some headaches for a newcomer. Trust me 4.10 is just as cool and incredibly stable. If you are the kind of guy (like I was until about 30 days ago) who thinks the cutting edge is the better way to go. Then you will have a great time. The FreeBSD community is always added greater and greater functionality at the cost of stability at times. 4.10 was release as I said like a month ago or something. It is still very new. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. FreeBSD is totally free. Donations are always welcome and I am sure they are graciously excepted. Personally I recommend that you drop the 30 bucks and get yourself a FreeBSD book like FreeBSD unleashed. Although you really do not need it because there is an abundance of information out there for FreeBSD. The Handbook is the best place to start and it totally free. It explains so much. I would like to see some more realistic examples in the handbook but hey, I guess if I want it I ought to update it and submit it to a committer. I found www.n0dez.com/freebsd and www.freebsdportal.com were a great place to find lots of links to FreeBSD sites. FreeBSD is a fabulous OS however there is no point to have it if you do not do something with it. Once I had it installed I kind of looked at my screen like what next. So the links I went to from there led me to the resources I needed to get my Postfix mail server, Bind 9 DNS server, MySql server, and PHP up and running. Now I need to look for some info on Mono (Unix .NET equivalent). Good luck I hope I helped answer any of your questions. I say try downloading from another FTP server and possibly if you have one another CD drive. Joshua Lewis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Jerry Schromm wrote: Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. Thanks a lot, Jerry Schromm Corning, California ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it really is free! Something must have gone wrong when you downloaded the ISO image - I and many others have been able to burn a bootable CD, using either FreeBSD, Linux or one of the proprietary packages operating under Windows. There is usually an option for creating a CD from a CD image; this is the one to use. If you buy the CD set, you get 4 CDs with a large collection of packages, and have the convenience of having them there. But you can get everything at no charge from www.freebsd.org if you prefer. FreeBSD is a great OS - I have been using it as my home desktop since 1997. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
For future reference, this page has important information on how to ask questions: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Jerry Schromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. This is almost definatly a problem with your burning software. Even a corrupted ISO will burn successfully, although you won't be able to use the CD. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. You need to provide more information on exactly what you did and the exact result (including cut/paste any error messages) ... with the information you've provided, we're left trying to guess what you did wrong, and I've got so many potential guesses that I'm not going to list them all. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. No, it's really free. I've been downloading both ISOs and floppy images and installing from them for 6 years now. Provide some details on what you did and what happened, and I'm sure we'll be able to help. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Bill Moran wrote: Jerry Schromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. This is almost definatly a problem with your burning software. Even a corrupted ISO will burn successfully, although you won't be able to use the CD. Are you sure? If you download the ISO in ASCII mode (therefore corrupting it), it will be bigger than the already full binary image. Some combination of burning software and media could result in a bad burn. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Please keep the mailing list CCed on any replies. Jerry Schromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Bill thanks for writing. You said both ISO's? Ok I downloaded 4 ISO's from that new AMD64 version folder. I guess you are just dealing with Disc1 and Disc2 and that Boot Disc. Not the others?? Any clues on this will be helpful. I want to get this for free initially. Maybe someday buy one who knows. But I would like to accomplish an install on this. Burn this op to disc. Maybe I should try another burner. Do you use something else? Let me know as much as you can in a nutshell. Thanks a lot!! bootonly.iso ---I burned this one and it seems to be working. I booted up with it but the box with the options only stay for a few seconds. I selected Enter for default but didn't do anything. Maybe it's something to do with choosing TRACK AT ONCE, or DISC AT ONCE, and there is DISC AT ONCE/96(I just noticed on NERO they have a mode for Boot Discs. I didn't use it for this iso burn. Maybe I should use that one) disc1.iso -I tried to burn this one and it errored. I couldn't burn it on Nero. disc2.iso Haven't tried to burn this one yet. mininst.iso --- This one looks like it says Mini instal?? checksum.md5 NOT SURE WHAT THIS IS. Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:For future reference, this page has important information on how to ask questions: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Jerry Schromm wrote: Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. This is almost definatly a problem with your burning software. Even a corrupted ISO will burn successfully, although you won't be able to use the CD. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. You need to provide more information on exactly what you did and the exact result (including cut/paste any error messages) ... with the information you've provided, we're left trying to guess what you did wrong, and I've got so many potential guesses that I'm not going to list them all. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. No, it's really free. I've been downloading both ISOs and floppy images and installing from them for 6 years now. Provide some details on what you did and what happened, and I'm sure we'll be able to help. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn
Your cd burner software should have an option to create a cd from an image. This is different than just copying files to a bland cd-rom. Look in the 'File' drop-down menu. Don't feel bad - I made the same mistake and posted the same question on this board about two years ago. P.S. Google is your best friend when researching FreeBSD issues. HTH Jim C. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Schromm Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I feel it had a kind of old school feeling to it, at the same time cutting edge technology. I am a believer in it's viability over Microsofts Windows. They love to hide information from us not inform us. The reason I am writing. I downloaded the 5.2.1 IS0's. I burned the boot disk successfully it seems. But I tried to burn the first big ISO file and it failed to burn. Some type of burn error following the track or something. Then I tried that other download that isn't the ISO but the regular files. That wouldn't do anything either. It burned but I can't instal it. That doesn't boot. Or install in anyway. I am wondering if FreeBSD is actually free or is this a way to get us to order the retail box lol. I don't want to feel that way. Yestersay I was so excited about this. I hope you can enlighten me some. Thanks a lot, Jerry Schromm Corning, California ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 7/9/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 7/9/2004 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
