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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 02:05:10 -0700
From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>
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Hi Bill:

Sorry you had such a miserable time with this. You may want to get
either of these two books, as helps in installing and configuring
FreeBSD.

FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer,
by Annelise Anderson

Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD
by Michael Lucas and Jordan Hubbard


On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:53:46 +0800, william gatlin
<willietheturtle@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying to get it to work.  After figuring out
> how to get an ISO image, windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted on modifying the file, I loaded it and