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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Poul Kristensen wrote:

> I have tried to install the FreeBsD operating system from a DOS partition,
> but when about 15% of the BIN directories has
> been installed(about 2.5MB) the installation fails.

What error message is reported on the ALT-F2 debug console?

One of your bin.* files may be corrupted.

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