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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD CDROM 2.0 XFree86 install problem
Date: 23 May 1995 18:42:05 GMT
Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines)
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msujoan@eua.ericsson.se (Johan Andersson) writes:

> I've been trying to install FreeBSD on a Pentium-machine (Scandic)
> I can install bindist, games and man_pages but when it comes to
> XFree86 and the checksum has been verified (OK) nothing happens.
> Both the disk and the cdrom are inactive. 

That would be a clue to check the status screen!  ALT-F2

> How do I proceed? by installing NetBSD?

Give up so easy?  *chuckle* you'll have a hard time with Unix if that
is your attitude ;]

Cheers

Leigh
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| "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart                |
|  from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> |
|  began to suspect 'Hungry' ..."  | C/- 195 Gilles Street     |
|   -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide  SA  5006        |