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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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