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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Jim wrote:

> Message: Couldn't extract the following distributions.  This may be because
> they were not available on the installation media you've chosen:
> 
> bin
> 
> Its getting frustrating...probably something very simple....but....HELP !

Did you put bin.inf on the first disk, along with the archive files?

Everyone misses it, for some reason...:)

> ps...can FreeBSD be placed on a system that already has Win95 AND Winnt 4.0
> workstation?

If you have unallocated diskspace, sure.

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