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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!qnet.com!usenet From: bruceb@qnet.com (Bruce Bergstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Please help a newbie. You were once one too! :) Date: 10 Sep 1995 04:39:07 GMT Organization: Quantum Networking Solutions, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <42tq5c$7s8@mandolin.qnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup14.palm.ca.qnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 I couldn't get FreeBSD installed via CD so I thought tht I'd try backing up the CD to tape and try to install it that way. I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 and FreeBSD see's it during the boot process. When I select the install from tape from the menu, I select QIC and allow the /usr/temp directory to be created. When I get to the "Results of tape extract" screen nothing happens. When I press enter it tells me "Improper distribution. No checksum script found" Is what I'm trying to do possible? Please help, I really want to learn this OS and winging it on my own with only an MS-DOS background is certainly a tremendous disadvantage. Guidance or constuctive suggestions from any of you guru's out there? I'd be most grateful. I'm trying to install FreeBSD on: 386DX40 8 mb 340 & 210 mb hd WD8003E network card and can add/switch: Colorado Jumbo 250 tape Reveal Panasonic double speed CD-Rom or Genstar 3000i (Which I was told is a Mitsumi) CD-Rom Or perhaps I can put the contents of the CD on floppies and I'd be willing to do this. My question to this is what files belong on what disks. Anyone? Please? :) Thank you, -=Bruce bruceb@qnet.com bruce.bergstrom@tumbleweed.com or here of course.