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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
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Subject: Re: How to install.....PLEASE HELP!! 
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In article <bsd.1.740768876@rkw-lan.cs.up.ac.za> bsd@rkw-lan.cs.up.ac.za writes:

>Hi there!
>
>I have just downloaded 386BSD from an ftp file server and I only have the 
>raw datafiles like bin01.34.....
>
>HOW the hell do I get it installed on a harddrive with just those files....
>What do I need to do and where do I get the software to do it...
>
>I really don't want to mail to Dr. Dobbs....
>
>Please help...
>
>Where do I get raw write???
>
>ETC ETC ETC
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Mike
>

I think raw write is on

	freefall.cdrom.com

Check it out.  If it is, there should be a 1.4 meg file with it.  You raw
write the file to a floppy under dos, and end up with a 386bsd boot disk.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Brian Somers