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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Archives????
Date: 20 Jul 94 17:05:52
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU's message of 20 Jul 1994 09:29:09 PST

In article <30jmt5$m72@hermes.unt.edu>
        wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) writes:

 * Okay, I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on a system here, the
 * archives I grabbed came from freebsd.cdrom.com
 * (.1/FreeBSD/FreeBSD/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.*) And once I get to the point
 * of 'extract bin' it craps out after about 50 files are extracted into the
 * usr/bin dir. I have re-ftp'ed the files twice now and I still get the same
 * problem. I also notced that the archives range from bin_tgz.a-z bin_tgz.ba-z
 * and bin_tgz.ca-l, is there suppose to be ca-cz?

Well, you probably neet to tell us exactly how you are installing them
(floppy, NFS, kermit?) and how it "craps out". ;)

By the way, the bin_tgz.ca-l is correct.

Satoshi