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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.0 & XFree 3.1
Date: 31 Jan 1995 03:36:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3gjv3u$e5d@sundog.tiac.net>,  <bgparker@tiac.net> wrote:
>Installing XFree 3.1.
>Your message said use ALt- F2.
>
>I never got that far.  The dialog box message said it was extracting files
>when no activity was on the system!  This dialog box message never went away.
>It stayed this way unitl I eventually gave up and aborted it.


You can hit ALT-F2 at any time!  It was waiting for you, that's why
there was no activity on the system.  Trust me.

						Jordan