bootonly.iso?

[John Murphy]

Matthew T. Lager wrote:

>Jay O'Brien wrote:
>> I have successfully burned iso CDs from FreeBSD files, so I know
>> my process for burning the CDs works.
>>
>> I burned Release 5.3's bootonly.iso file to a CD. When I put that
>> CD back into my Windows machine that burned it, it is recognized
>> as a blank CD.
>>
>> When I put that CD into my FreeBSD computer that was built from
>> FreeBSD iso CDs, it doesn't work, as if it were a blank CD.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Jay O'Brien
>>
>> PS.. I did try it a second time, just in case I had a bad blank CD.

>Did you be sure you were downloading the .iso in binary format? If your
>FTP client was transferring at ASCII, that would be your prob...

My guess would be that the bootonly disc is [cough] boot only.

Try booting it. :)

-- 
John.