Hey guys, I am trying to install FreeBSD onto my PC, but the ISO is 2.40 GB. I haven't got any discs that big, but I do have a 1 TB brand new WD external HDD with nothing but the factory files on it. I put the ISO on there, and tried to launch it in the boot menu, and it is saying it is not a proper boot device. What am I doing wrong? How can I make this work? Motherboard: Asrock Extreme9 Thank you, pf12351
You can't just throw a disc image in a drive and boot from that. You need to burn the image. I have never installed an OS from a hard drive (always used a USB drive or DVD), but it should work just fine. I have never installed FreeBSD, so not sure how to create a bootable install disk, just google "freebsd install disk".
Same way you would do with any other bootable medium. Just mount the ISO (Win8 and later has the software built in, earlier versions of Windows need third-party software to mount ISOs, you can get it for free) onto the USB drive and, from the BIOS, boot from the USB drive.
The windows 8 ISO mounting is something entirely unlrelated to whats required here. Here a tool is required to burn the ISO onto USB or other external medium (pendrivelinux I use and I think supports BSD). Windows 8 does not support ISO burning. ISO mounting, that only mounts the ISO as a virtual disk drive which will not persist through a reboot, the BIOS wont see the damn thing.
Exactly what 6677 said, so what do I put on the USB? The ISO alone, or, do I have to mount it onto the usb?
It said in the post. Burn/image the ISO onto the usb, which does not mean drag and drop it onto the usb.
This is a stupid method, but it worked for me when I installed Windows 7 on my PC: Open up the .iso in WinRAR or 7Zip and copy the files inside it, then paste it on the USB, and it would probably work.
^Yep Rufus. You can create a 2.5GB partition on your HDD, then use Rufus to create a bootable device on that partition. It's pretty easy to use.
