PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca> writes: > Burning the iso image of install45.iso does not create a bootable disk.
Strange. The installNN.iso images are definitely meant to be bootable. When I have not had easy access to a real CD set, I have at times booted and installed machines from disks burned from those files, so I suspect the missing bit is how the disks were burned. > This is not a very good beginning for someone who has just decided to > trash FreeBSD. > FBSDs disks boot with no problem... Not a good beginning, but unless there's some odd detail we're missing, if you're able to boot FreeBSD there is normally no reason why an OpenBSD installer disk for the appropriate platform should fail to boot. The first question should probably be, did you verify that the .iso file matched the checksum before you burned it to disk? If the file was corrupted, that would be a good reason why you could not get it to boot. Once you've cleared that hurdle, It would help a lot with more details about the hardware, what image file you are using and where it came from (ie is it the i386 one, the amd64 one, off an official mirror site, or something different) and what application and options you use to burn the CD. Burning CD images to DVD media does not always work, for example (probably a stupid one that risks insistent contradictions, but well,), so any detail you supply could be helpful in sorting out whatever the problem is. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
