Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 23:39:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Henrik Johansson <f94jnh@udd.htu.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: harddisks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960511233808.14985J-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0uHyOL-00016JC@rs02.udd.htu.se>
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On Fri, 10 May 1996, Henrik Johansson wrote: > I'm a new FreeBSD user. I bought version 2.1 from Walnut Creek. > When choosing Novice Install and selecting packages to install > I get an error message when trying to install emacs and xemacs. > other packages such as uemacs and vi installed OK. The error report > I got said something about that it could be an installation > medium (CD)error or something else, but I don't remember exactly. > Has anyone else reported this? Don't know. Maybe your CD is scratched? Try adding those packages after you get up. > Question 2: > > I'm thinking of buying a new large harddrive such as > Seagate or Maxtor 1GB. Will they work fine with FreeBSD? Shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as the root partition is below 500MB or so. 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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