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07-12-2002, 05:05 PM
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Making a bootable cd for FreeBSD...
I downloaded the ISO for FreeBSD 4.5, extracted it, then burned it to a CD. Started up the computer and it wouldn't boot from the CD. I changed BIOS so that it would boot off of the CD, but it still wouldn't. That iso was supposed to be bootable...anyway, is there any special way to burn a bootable iso to a cd? I just extracted the files, then burned them, but that didn't seem to work...
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07-12-2002, 05:17 PM
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Your burning program has to be able to handle ISO images directly. A lot of the beginner programs that get packed with new cd burners, can't do this. I true iso image is a single disk file, A master image of an entire cd. It will be unpacked with all the directories, hidden files, or whatever intact. If you used some kind of program that just let you extract files, which you moved over by hand, you could be missing files, directories could be wrong or missing, this sort of thing.
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07-12-2002, 05:20 PM
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I was using whatever came with Windows XP. I extracted the iso the dragged the files over by hand, then burned them. Is there a program that will burn iso's?
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07-12-2002, 05:20 PM
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I burned my BSD CD's using Nero (File-Burn Image) just fine. What software are you using?
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07-12-2002, 05:21 PM
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I'll try Nero, thanks.
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