Possible bug with spam permissions

[Julian Field]

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Thanks for the info guys. Turns out the images at www.mirror.ac.uk  
are corrupt. I'll drop them a line.
I downloaded the "bootonly" iso from Germany, attached that as a  
virtual device, and VMWare then installed it nicely.
V. ugly install program. They really don't want novices running this  
stuff, do they?

On 26 Aug 2005, at 08:41, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I've burnt a CD of the -bootonly.iso file for 5.4, and it won't  
>> boot off it.
>> And if I try to burn one from my laptop at home, the software  
>> refuses to accept it is an ISO at all. And that is separately  
>> downloaded from www.mirror.ac.uk, which is usually fine.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> I can't get this d**n BSD stuff to start at all.
>> Do I need to boot off the -bootonly.iso then use disc 1 then disc 2?
>> The installation guide is at least 10 years old, it tells you to  
>> catalogue all your hardware with ISA-bus interrupt numbers and  
>> stuff like that, it is so out of date it is useless.
>> /me not impressed by FreeBSD so far...
>>
> Hmm
>
> You know in many years of FreeBSD use I've never actually read the  
> instructions at the very beginning...gosh they really out of date  
> aren't they....
>
> Anyway disk1 is all you really need (the boot only is a rescue disk  
> type affair). Disk 2 contains lots of the ports etc and most people  
> download them using cvsup once they'ce got the basic install done.
>
> If you're still struggling try another mirror..
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors- 
> ftp.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-UK-FTP
>
> these are virtual and will drop you somewhere...
>
> if you are still having problems let me know and I'll drop in the  
> post 1st class so you should have it next day.
>
> Oh and yes the rest of the install is non-gui back to 1994 style as  
> well. But once you get your head around it it's fairly easy.
>
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> Martin Hepworth
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic Ltd
> tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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