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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hat off!! Date: 2 Sep 1995 01:50:25 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 20 Message-ID: <428d91$oqh@reason.cdrom.com> References: <427nlp$9c1@parsifal.nando.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:427nlp$9c1@parsifal.nando.net dknierim@nando.net (David Knierim) wrote: >Well, I just installed FreeBSD on a couple of PCs and I must say, >Hats off to everyone involved with the installation stuff. It worked >nearly flawlessly, once I discovered that the boot floppy required >an 8Meg system (maybe this should be documented???) Thanks! Uh. Which version of FreeBSD? We tested 2.0.5 with numerous 4MB systems, in fact we had to work a fair bit to get back down to 4MB again after we inadvertantly went over.. >I also have not figgured out how the packages are supposed to work. >I cannot find the README in the packages subdirectory which the >FreeBSD.FAQ refers to. `man pkg_add' I think I may have left the README out of the packages dir. Whoops!!! I'll go do something about that! [red face] -- Jordan