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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:58:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "William J. Manning" <wmanning@flash.net>
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Subject: Re: The latest version of FreeBSD
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, William J. Manning wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I tried installing FreeBSD v2.1.5 on my Gateway 2000 P5-133 system last
> Christmas. The installation processed failed for a number of reasons:
> The boot disks I created would crash the system, using an older version
> of FreeBSD the install program would recognize my CD-ROM, ...

Try 2.2.5. and see if that helps.  

Can you be more specific by `crash the system'?


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