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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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To: Benson Cole Treinen <bencolet@ix.netcom.com>
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On Fri, 15 May 1998, Benson Cole Treinen wrote:

>I recently purchased freebsd 2.2.5 on four cdroms.  I followed the
>instructions in the manual(to the best of my knowledge) and I can't get
>the installation to work right.  I actually haven't been able to install
>yet.  I was wondering if you could mail me some simple layman's
>instructions that would be easier to follow and understand.  I have a
>300mhz pentium II computer with a 9G hard drive partitioned into 4.  I
>would like to install freebsd onto my partition labeled d:\.  Do i have
>to copy all the files off the four cd's onto my hard drive befor i can
>actually install?  How do I do it?  Please send help!?  Thanks. 

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html

No, you don't copy the files first.

Thank you,       | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at.
Jason Wells	 | http://www.freebsd.org/


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