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Chris wrote:

>First and foremost hello, and thank you for offering a program such as this for free. I have not yet installed or tried the FreeBSD platform (am downloading it currently), but I do have a few questions before i waste more cd's to install yet another possible failure of an OS (of course not saying FreeBSD is a failure, but I'm sure you know what I mean :D) I would like to know if this OS platform supports
>
You should just download the net install diskettes.  It is a faster 
download (just 3 disks), works on more hardware (like my laptop), the 
disks can be reused, and (I think) you get more up-to-date stuff.

thx