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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CONGRATULATIONS FreBSD Team Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:31:03 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4cfhln$8o1@news2.realtime.net> References: <4b9s76$1a4@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <TOMDEAN.96Jan2084824@slcsun2.slac.stanford.edu> Reply-To: dhbrown@bga.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jake-6g.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-RTcode: a8de225f30f71d9f02eb49b9 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 In article <TOMDEAN.96Jan2084824@slcsun2.slac.stanford.edu>, tomdean@slcsun2.slac.stanford.edu says... > >I will second that... > >I had some problems with installation, but, mostly they were between my >ears, or in not reading the docs closely... > >tomdean Actually, the installation program is kinda nice. I will withhold congratulations, since I have a complaint. I happen to be doing a floppy install, with a batch of old diskettes (from a previous dos backup). Well, there were two diskettes which had problems. One was just a bad diskette; the other, a truncated file--apparently an incomplete download. The install program did not indicate which diskette was bad... the failure showed up when reading the bin.ca diskette. Thinking it was the bin.c_ group, I downloaded those files several more times, always having the same problem. It turned out it was bin.bz that was bad. If I had any advice for someone else doing an install, it would be to set up a dos partition large enough to load the floppies onto, and then do a DOS Partition install--which I finally did. That way, I knew all the files were "good" ahead of time since I had done a DOS copy onto the hard disk, and installation was a breeze after that. There are a number of "levels" of installation, but I couldn't find a list of what directories in the RELEASE directory were needed for each level. I ended up doing a download of the bin directory, and then starting the install... as another set of files was asked for, I'd go download it. Admittedly, I'll use a CDROM next time. -- Dave Brown Austin, TX