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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help on getting FreeBSD on my machine
Date: 5 Feb 1994 19:33:46 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <1994Feb4.151656@unccsun.uncc.edu>,
James Lee Robinson <jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu> wrote:
>	I have been looking around freebsd.cdrom.com, and am 
>curious as to _which_ FreeBSD I should install.

The only one that is installable is FreeBSD-Release.  Once that
is installed, install the 1.0 -> 1.0.2 patch and you should have
a very stable system.  At that point, wait about a month or so and
then you can apply the 1.0.2 -> 1.1 patch and having working shlibs,
a much better VM system, etc...


Nate
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