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another issue I have run across is that system boards in some Netvista's are bad (the test they gave is a visual, look at the capacitors and if they appear to be swollen more than likely this was the problem)

Can you query the registry instead of file extensions (assuming Windows)???

thanks worked great

Hey, I've downloaded different ports (xfree86,games,etc) from the Freebsd website, burned the cd's and tried to decompress the .gz files. I tried various switches, however, I always get xxxxxx is a read only file system (xxxxx is the name of the file trying to work with), I did use the -fc...

No this is a standalone system, I just downloaded it one more time (was at a faster connection, thought maybe something corrupted), anyways if this doesnt work, will probably buy the cd's from the website.

What kind of error do you get? you should have created 2 diskettes kern.flp and mfsroot.flp (and fixit.flp, but not necessary for the install). Are you installing from a CD?

I downloaded the 4.4 iso again, reburned a couple more discs, and still cannot get certain portions to install. The compatxx, and others still give me a media error, any ideas why most everything else installed from the cd, but these will not?

Thanks for all the responses. I decided on FreeBSD (just because). After beating my head against the wall (except for the pain, the colors were quite pretty!) for a few days I finally got most of the 4.4 installed (I was having problems with the media not being recognized, turns out that I...

Hey, Here is my "problem" some files in nt explorer do not show up in dos. I went to the MS website and found the "answer" was fixed in sp6a (which is what we run). According to the website the problem lies with dos unable to use long file names, however, I see some of the...

Just 1 small correction to PossumJohns entry, the url should be ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/ (like I said just a small correction (replaced a comma with a period before .org)

Hey, I would like to get some input as to the pros/cons of the different Unix's. I worked some with HP-Unix and AIX, however, not enough to decide as to which would be the best choice for me. (ie is there a better Unix for beginners) I would appreciate your input. Joe