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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD install1.fs1 chokes
Date: 1 May 1993 11:08:53 -0400
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In article <1rrlnk$6dp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes:
>
> Sorry for the noise but a simple README with some instructions would
> have helped and would have prevented unnecessary asking.

Reading the INSTALL.NOTES file would have, too.

> The next problem I had was that the wd8003 was found but ftp after
> doing a ifconfig by hand did not work.

Did you do a `route add' so you can talk to machines outside your
subnet?

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