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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.hk.net!p135.slip.hk.net!victorwu From: victorwu@hk.net (Victor Wai Hung WU) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: re: Installation with Boot Disks kcopy_ah.flp or kcopy_bt.flp Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 21:24:45 Organization: Business Infrastructure Technology Ltd Lines: 31 Message-ID: <victorwu.14.00156A3A@hk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p135.slip.hk.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Hello there, On 9th and 10th Sept., 94, I have posted an article with the above heading. I finally found out the problem. That was because my DOS pc had infected a virus which affects the boot sector. Hence the boot disk made by it cannot boot the machine. A few weeks later, a friend of mine copied a dos file from my pc and found the virus. After the pc is cleaned, I managed to make the boot disks that can boot the pc as FreeBSD. Since then I have installed the FreeBSD both at home and in my College. I am very happy with it now. I managed to mount NFS, login to an internet gateway in Hong Kong using slip. I have also gotten XFree86 installed and running twm on X window. I just want to express my gratitude to all those who have spent their effort in making FreeBSD possible and all those who has replied to my question posted here. Although most of the reply said about the booting sequence of A: or C: first, which was not the problem. However, I still have a question at the moment. I know I am greedy! My question is : Will somebody who has gotten OpenLook running on FreeBSD tell me how to do it. Yes, I know OpenLook is just a GUI standard. What I really mean is XView and xlwm or xlvwm. I have gotten the source from MIT ftp site but when I compile it there seems some problem with the paths. Thanks very much, best regards from Victor W H Wu.