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Subject: Installation!!
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:50:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mohammad K Islam <sohel@southwind.net>
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 Hello,
 
  I just bought Freebsd Cd-rom from walnut creek cd-rom and was trying to 
  do a minimum install. Everything was going fine except when it asked me 
  for confirmation to install it on a freebsd partition i have created , 
  after confirming i get msg that "Write failure on transfar...." and after 
  that i get the msg that "unable to transfer the bin distribution from 
  wdOs1."(ms-dos partition)
 
  Since i have a proprietory cd-rom(creative lab cd-rom drive --quad speed),
  i was unable to install(novice installation) from cd-rom. So i copied the 
  dists/bin to c:\freebsd\bin and also floppies directory to 
  c:\freebsd\floppies. Then i tired to do a minimal installaiton and went 
  through the process of installing form ms-dos partition but at the end 
  got the msg mentioned above.
 
  I will play with installtion more to see that i can work it out or not. 
  Meanwhile if anybody cab provide me with some info on this (so that life 
  would be a little easier) i would greatly appreciate it. Also i was 
  wondering how can install from the cd-ROM i have? 
 
  Any help would be greatly appreciated. My machine is a pentium75 with 8 
  megs of ram(soon to be upgraded) with a total of 1.2gb Hd (currently 
  available 847mb) running win95/msdos7.00.
 
  Thanks in advance.
 
 
   Sincerely,
 
   Sohel
 
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 Mohammad K Islam                          E-mail:sohel@southwind.net 
 1434 N Fairmount #1                       
 Wichita, KS 67208
 
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