Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > 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? Checksums match! > 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. I already posted wherefrom - openBSD ftp site; the burning was done exaactly the same as for the FreeBSD and many other files without ever having any problems... and I mean, EVER ! > 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. It really pisses me off that everyone assumes that the poor sap who is asking for help is too stupid to have done things right and they just forget that maybe the problem is in the SOURCE ! I know what a bootable image usually looks like... but neither of those I downloaded look right. Unless, of course the booting is supposed to be done in some incomprehesible way from some other operating system in some mysterious way that is not spelled out anywhere where I can find it, anyway. :-) Sorry, but I'm ust laughing all theway back to FreeBSD... they may be fucked-up but at least I can managed to figure out how to to deal with them. I liked the idea of how your head honcho runs things and the general response to the OS, but by gosh and by golly, Molly, somebody ai'nt got the steering sheel pointed right!
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