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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: How do you get FreeBSD installed?! Date: 9 Sep 1993 21:27:02 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <26o736$sk5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <26b8h6$k1m@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <26b8h6$k1m@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, <mccs3108@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrote: > I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my pc without any luck. If I >follow the steps in the installation instructions, the copying of the >kernal fails. > > I next tried to create a new partition and set it active. I then went >through the steps, and still it fails? How do you get it to install!? Your best bet for installation problems for FreeBSD is the mailing lists mentioned in the article. That way you are sure to get our attention, and we can answer the question when we are doing work, not doing play (as reading News has lately become something I do only when I have time, and I know some of the other group members don't even read news any more) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)