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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing: am I doing this right?
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:42:00 -0800
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To: Ian Fennell <redlodge@gem.co.za>
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Ian Fennell wrote:
> I'm trying to do a minimal install of 2.1.6 on the same HD as Win 95
> either from the Dos partition or from floppies.

I'm afraid it's going to take 2.2 to install on your system.  There's a
flaw with DOS installation in 2.1.6 which bites some people.

Floppies should work if you don't forget to put the foo.inf files on the
first floppies of each set.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project