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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:24:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jeffrey S. Patton" <jeffrey@kspress.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: terrible time installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970801012344.11381X-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <01BC9C7B.012D0790@IS~PGRAPHX>

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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jeffrey S. Patton wrote:

> I used to think that I knew a lot about computers and the software that
> runs them but I feel utterly confused trying to get this set up on my
> laptop. 

:-) Welcome to laptops.

> I can't figure out the ppp thing to install over the internet so I
> downloaded the bin.?? To floppies to install from floppy. 

Okay.  

> It refuses to install from the floppy drive I put all bin.?? In the
> a:\bin\ directory that didn't work one of the prompts asked for
> \dist\bin\bin.aa so I put them (bin.??) in the a:\dist\bin\ directory
> that also didn't work...

What does the ALT-F2 debug screen report as the problem with the archive?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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