RE: 4.10 Install failure.

From: Peter Ryan (pryan_at_singnet.com.sg)
Date: 08/16/04

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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:57:24 +0800

     

    > > 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

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