I can't boot from the CD...

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Glen Stewart <inspiringdesign at adelphia.net> writes:

> I downloaded FreeBSD from your site (I downloaded it to my MAC)
> The PC that I will put it on is a new Compaq Presairo - with a AMD 
> Semptron 3000+ Chip.
> The ISO that I downloaded onto the MAC was dragged and drppped - then 
> Burned on a CD.
> I did not "prep the file or convert it" in any way.

One rather common mistake is to put the ISO file on a CD as a file
rather than burning the image (which is in fact a binary copy of a CD
file system) to the disk. Most, if not all, CD writer programs have a
"burn image" option or similar.

If you burned the ISO correctly, your Mac should see a number of files
and folders on the CD. If all you see is one rather large file, the CD
will not be usable. 

> I switched the boot order to CD - and I still cannot get the Free BSD 
> Disk to boot...
> What do I need to do?

What messages, if any, do you get? The help you get here generally
improves with the precision in reporting such things as error messages.

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