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From: kehlet@netcom.com (Steven Kehlet)
Subject: guru needed: manual installation
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 01:04:15 GMT
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The installation program keeps rebooting my machine.  I've been with
FreeBSD long enough now that this is absolutely driving me crazy that
I can't get it to work. 

Can someone tell me how I can extract all the bin.?? files by hand?
I think its a cpio command, with gunzip, or something.

Assuming my file systems have been made correctly, and I boot up with
a floppy, then mount the partitions, and all the necessary files are
accessible.

There used to be those cool ``extract.sh'' files in the directories
at ftp.cdrom.com.  That's the sort of thing I'm looking for.

Thanks a TON!

Steve Kehlet