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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:23:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Patrick M Mucci <pmucci@shrike.depaul.edu>
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Subject: Re: installing from dos partition
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Please try to keep your messages concise; it's difficult to slog through
long messages looking for the important bits.  I'll tyr to cut & paste..

> I have a gateway 486, 66 mhz, with a 2.3 gig master drive
> and a 1.6 gig slave drive.

OK.

> my intention is to split the 1.6 gig drive roughly into a 600 meg
> primary partion (in dos), and to use the remaining 1 gig
> as my free BSD slice.

Fine.

> when I went on to install xf86, the install progy had trouble
> finding it, I got a lot of errors, I switched CD's and attempted
> to let the install program find the files... this seemd to
> taint the install process, so I eventually had to quit.. getting
> the feeling that a full install didnt occur.

>From what it looks like below, that's probably the case.  Try deleting the
FreeBSD slice and start over.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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