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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help installing FreeBSD
Date: 28 Sep 1993 02:50:10 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <113488@hydra.gatech.edu>,
Henry 'Hank' Harlan Roark III <ph279hr@prism.gatech.EDU> wrote:
>This may be in the FAQ, but I can't find it.
>
>I've installed the mini FreeBSD (the first three disks) and have gotten to
>the point where I should issue the load_fd command to load the rest of the
>binary distribution.  But it doesn't work.  It seem that mount complains of
>some sort of invalid arguements.

Are you sure you have the most recent install disks?  They have been 
modified *heavily* in the recent weeks to work much better than they
did before.


Nate

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