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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!rkswamy From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 16 Nov 1995 16:54:30 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 12 Message-ID: <48fqc6$s3k@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48ajue$3h6@muirwood.convex.com> <poulosioDI20sJ.5vz@netcom.com> <48dpdg$mo9@muirwood.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc04du.unity.ncsu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27805 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9167 comp.unix.advocacy:11186 comp.unix.misc:19601 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8867 In <poulosioDI20sJ.5vz@netcom.com> poulosio@netcom.com (Mad Max) writes: Are you just trying to install Linux or trying to get your CD-ROM drive to work while in Linux? If you still have msdog on the machine, then copy all of the files to the dos partition and install from there. I originally got Linux via floppy, but copied it to the dos partition and installed from there. Quite fast after the floppy transfer. Ravi -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/r/rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com