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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:03:50 -0800
From:      "Jim" <infosys@medfab.com>
To:        "FreeBSD" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Install questions
Message-ID:  <199702052311.PAA25136@jeffnet.org>

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I am attempting to do a fairly minimal install of FreeBSD onto a 486-33Mhz
with a 212Meg disk.  Told the novice install procedure to use the whole
disk for BSD.  Used 3.5" floppies with MS-DOS formatting...reformatted when
they won't work.  Tried placing the '/bin' files in their own subdirectory
on the floppies, then in \FREEBSD\BIN and am still getting, after the
'Please insert floppy for floppy drive unit A' and doing so, the message
Message: Couldn't extract the following distributions.  This may be because
they were not available on the installation media you've chosen:

bin

Its getting frustrating...probably something very simple....but....HELP !

Thanks.

Jim Lloyd
541-776-7606
jalloyd@teleport.com

ps...can FreeBSD be placed on a system that already has Win95 AND Winnt 4.0
workstation?





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