freeBSD install problem

[chorb]

I currently have WinXP installed, but I want to play around with unix a little so I decided to go with FreeBSD. I downloaded the iso images, burned them onto CD without error. But now when I restart my computer with the book disk in it gets to the "boot from CD" screen then the computer restarts. Any idea why this is happening?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did the md5 check out for the FreeBSD iso? Could it have been a bad burn?

 

[kamper]

How exactly did you burn them? If you pop the cd in while booted into windows and look at it's contents, do you see the iso or all the files that are FreeBSD?

 

[chorb]

Im pretty sure the burn was fine, as I see all the files on the disk when i look at the CD in windows. But I havnt run a checksum, i downloaded directly from freeBSD's website so the should be legit, but I'll retry it tonight. Thanks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: chorb
Im pretty sure the burn was fine, as I see all the files on the disk when i look at the CD in windows. But I havnt run a checksum, i downloaded directly from freeBSD's website so the should be legit, but I'll retry it tonight. Thanks.

Corruption during the download can cause issues. I've downloaded a few bad isos from legit sources before, it happens.

 

[djdrastic]

1)Check CheckSum
2)Burn Disks at slower speed

 

[daniel49]

I tried pc bsd and it kept getting stuck on trying to acess my floppy drive for some reason.
I have that celeron 333 overclocked to 500 mhz though, will try it again after the used slot 1 cooler I bought gets here.
no other machine free at the moment to try it on.