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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD CDROM 2.0 XFree86 install problem
Date: 20 May 1995 08:37:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3phjev$c30@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>,
Johan Andersson <msujoan@eua.ericsson.se> wrote:
>I've been trying to install FreeBSD on a Pentium-machine (Scandic)
>I can install bindist, games and man_pages but when it comes to
>XFree86 and the checksum has been verified (OK) nothing happens.
>Both the disk and the cdrom are inactive. 
>How do I proceed? by installing NetBSD?

You could, but I think typing ALT-F2 to answer the XFree86 questions
it's asking would be a lot simpler.. :-)

This misfeature went away in later releases.

						Jordan