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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD CDROM 2.0 XFree86 install problem
Date: 23 May 1995 07:45:51 GMT
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In article <3phjev$c30@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>, msujoan@eua.ericsson.se 
says...
>
>Hi!
>
>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?

  Use ALT-F2 to switch to the status screen.  If you consider this 
difficult, try installing XFree on NetBSD!

Tom

(I'm not running down NetBSD, it is just that the 1.0 isn't exactly
meant for beginners)