Re: How To Install Windows From Free BSD?

On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:26:22 -0500, Jon Radel wrote:
>If you wish to install Windows and don't care about FreeBSD, you boot 
>off of a Windows installation CD or thumbdrive and install Windows as
>if you had an empty hard drive.  There is absolutely no "from free
>bsd" involved.

Hi,

IIUC the OP tries to "open"/"run" the downloaded Windows ISO by FreeBSD.
I guess it's important to explain, that the Windows ISO either needs to
be burned to a DVD, I doubt it fits on a CD or that it needs to be used
to make a bootable USB stick. After that there is the need to shut
down/restart FreeBSD and then not to boot it again, but instead to boot
into the Windows installer on a DVD (or on an USB stick).

While USB sticks are very cheap today, I doubt that the OP will be able
to use an USB stick. It's not only "harder" to make a bootable USB
stick, it's also requires to get into the BIOS, to boot from an USB
stick. However, since the OP already is unable to burn an ISO to a DVD,
I strongly recommend to get in contact with Windows support, unless
somebody from this mailing list is really willing to explain how to
burn a DVD. Without doubts a lot of requests will follow, such as how to
use the Windows installer, how to activate Windows for less than $100
etc., not to mention that Internet Explorer is discontinued.

"Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and
Windows Internet Explorer, (from August 16, 1995 to March 30, 2021)
commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a discontinued series of graphical
web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft
Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995." -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer

"Microsoft recommends Internet Explorer users migrate to Edge" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#End_of_life

Regards,
Ralf