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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:43:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, michael van doren wrote:

> I am installing FreeBSD for the first time from a MS Dos partition, I have
> plenty of rom and am wondering which 'DISTS' I should install.  Should I
> use the ports or packages collection and if so, should I replicate the
> directory structure that exists on the WWW server?

See the INSTALL.TXT file that is in the release directory for full
instructions.  To answer your questions though, no, don't get the
packages, and no don't replicate the directory structure, follow the
instructions in INSTALL.TXT.

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