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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!nomore!andre From: andre@nomore.ru.ac.za (Andre Nel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Help Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <767711533.0snx@nomore.ru.ac.za> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 94 13:12:13 GMT Organization: personal Lines: 21 I am trying to Install FreeBSD from the binary distribution on Stiffie, the installation goes OK until after I have extracted the binaries as per the installation instructions, but when I try to do the following step I get an error message: As per the instructions I need to do the following mv /.profile /.profile.install This works fine, but then ln /root/.profile /.profile gives me a message which says something to the effect that the command ln doesn't exist and then if I reboot the system thereafter it won't boot. What is the ln command meant to say? and is there any way in which I can fix this or do I need to install again? The machine I am using has a 540Mb Quantum SCSI drive with a 200Mb Dos partition. Thanks Andre