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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Walnut Creek CD XFree86 install time?
Date: 13 Mar 1995 11:22:15 +0100
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In article <3joo4k$qmj@feenix.metronet.com>,
David K. Merriman <merriman@metronet.com> wrote:
>I've gotten *almost* all the stuff off the Walnut Creek FreeBSD CD\
 installed; however, when I go to install XFree, it
>does the checksum stuff, and then just _sits_ there - I let it go\
 for a couple of hours before giving up on it.

Alt-F2.  Switch to the other screen.  The XFree86 install program didn't
fit right into the `new style' installation process, hence it's been
asking questions there...
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)