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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:00:45 -0400
From:      "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To:        "Ben Turner" <turnball_@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4
Message-ID:  <007301c14a9a$9c7de580$6600000a@columbia>
In-Reply-To: <OE41ux4Jf7zynrvDOv500007031@hotmail.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ben Turner
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:53 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4
>
>
> Yea I figured out that it was an extremely old version after I had gotten
> the disks to finally boot up.  I tried to get the newer 4.3 but I couldn't
> get it on a disk properly.  I have burned the 4.4, 4.3, and 4.2
> verison and
> all of them are not viewable after I burn them.  Since I haven't been able
> to view the files on the disk, I haven't been able to make any boot disks.
> For some reason none of these cd's are bootable either.
>
> Well so much for buying a book and having a decent copy of FreeBSD in it.
> Getting close to scrapping the whole FreeBSD project and going with Redhat
> just because I think I have a disk for it that will install without
> requiring a PHD in Computer Science.

	If you download the images of the boot floppies for 4.4, and have a
decently high speed Internet connection, why not just do an FTP install?
That way, you won't have to mess with the CDs, etc.

--- Andy


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