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From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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In my earlier mail to 100523.2153@compuserve.com when I wrote:

> also make a bindist directory on your dos fdisk partition,
> & read the files across from cd to hard disk.

I forgot to add the important phrase:

	as you can then boot FreeBSD,  & use the bindist files off the
	dos partition, by mounting the dos partition for reading
	(indeed even for writing) from a running FreeBSD.

Julian S        jhs@freebsd.org