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+o About FreeBSD:
+
+What is FreeBSD?  FreeBSD is an operating system based on 4.4 BSD Lite
+for Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen "x86" based PC hardware.  It works
+with a very wide variety of PC peripherals and configurations and can
+be used for everything from software development to Internet Service
+Provision.
+
+This release of FreeBSD contains everything you need to run such a
+system, including full source code for everything.  With the source
+distribution installed you can literally recompile the entire system
+from scratch with one command, making it ideal for students,
+researchers or folks who simply want to see how it all works.
+
+A large collection of 3rd party ported software (the "ports
+collection") is also provided to make it easier for you to obtain and
+install all your favorite traditional UNIX utilities for FreeBSD.
+Over 1000 ports, from editors to programming languages to graphical
+applications, make FreeBSD a powerful and comprehensive operating
+environment that extends far beyond what's provided by many commercial
+versions of UNIX.
+
+For more documentation on this system it is recommended that you
+purchase the 4.4BSD Document Set from O'Reilly Associates and the
+USENIX Association, ISBN 1-56592-082-1.  We have no connection with
+O'Reilly, we're just satisfied customers!
+
+If you're new to FreeBSD then you should also read EVERYTHING listed
+in the Documentation menu on the boot floppy.  It may seem like a lot
+to read, but you should at least acquaint yourself with the types of
+information available should you later get stuck.  Once the system is
+installed, you can also revisit this menu and use a WEB browser to
+read the installed FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and Handbook HTML
+documentation sets for FreeBSD.  You can also use the browser to visit
+other WEB sites on the net (such as http://www.freebsd.org) if you
+have an Internet connection.
+
+
+DISCLAIMER: While FreeBSD does its best to safeguard against
+accidental loss of data, it's still more than possible to WIPE OUT
+YOUR ENTIRE DISK with this installation!  Please do not proceed to the
+final FreeBSD installation menu unless you've adequately backed up any
+important data first!  We really mean it!
+
+
+o E-mail addresses and tech support info:
+
+For general questions, please send email to :
+
+        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
+
+Please also have patience if your questions are not answered right
+away - this mailing list is staffed purely by volunteers and they also
+have real life schedules to contend with.  Questions which are asked
+intelligently (e.g. not "My system doesn't work!  What's wrong!?")
+also stand a far greater chance of being answered. If your question
+does not contain enough information to allow the responder to generate
+a meaningful answer, they generally won't.
+
+Bug reports submitted with the send-pr command are also logged and
+tracked in our bugs database, and you'll be kept informed of any
+changes in status during the life of the bug (or feature request).
+
+Technical comments on this release should be sent (in English!) to:
+
+        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
+
+Bug reports should be sent using the `send-pr' command or the Web page
+at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html.  If you cannot use either of
+these two methods, you may also send mail to:
+
+        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
+
+
+PLEASE ALSO BE SURE TO INDICATE WHICH VERSION OF FREEBSD YOU'RE
+RUNNING IN ANY BUG REPORTS OR QUESTIONS!
+
+Sorry for the caps, but you'd be amazed at how many times people
+forget this and there are many different release versions of FreeBSD
+out there now.  It's imperative that we know what you're running so
+that we tell if you're suffering from a bug which has already been
+fixed.
+
+
+o WWW Resources:
+
+Our WEB site, http://www.freebsd.org, is also a very good source for
+updated information and provides a number of advanced documentation
+searching facilities.  If you wish to use Netscape as your browser,
+several versions may be found in the ports collection under
+/usr/ports/www if you've installed the ports collection on your
+machine (always a good idea).
+
+Several other non-commercial browsers are also available in
+/usr/ports/www and may be compiled and installed in the same fashion.
+Many are also available as pre-compiled packages - see the Packages
+entry in the Configuration menu for more details.
+
+The Handbook and FAQ are also available as on-line documents in
+/usr/share/doc and can be read using the ``file:/usr/share/doc''
+syntax in any HTML capable browser.
+
+
+o Distributions:
+
+A typical FreeBSD distribution directory looks like this:
+
+ABOUT.TXT       bin             dict            manpages        tools
+HARDWARE.TXT    compat1x        des		doc             packages
+INSTALL.TXT     compat20        floppies        ports
+README.TXT      compat21        games           proflibs
+RELNOTES.TXT    info            src
+XF86332
+
+If you want to do a CDROM, FTP or NFS installation from this
+distribution directory, all you need to do is make a 1.44Mb floppy
+from the floppies/boot.flp image file (see floppies/README.TXT for
+instructions on how to do this), boot it and follow the instructions.
+
+If you're trying to do some other type of installation, or are just
+curious about how the distribution is organized in general, what
+follows is a more thorough description of each item in more detail:
+
+The *.TXT files obviously contain documentation (ABOUT.TXT being what
+you're reading now).
+
+The XF86332 directory contains the XFree86 project's 3.3.2 release and
+consists of a series of gzip'd tar files which contain each component
+of the XFree86 distribution.
+
+The bin, dict, des, doc, games, info, manpages, proflibs, and src
+directories contain the primary distribution components of FreeBSD
+itself and are split into smaller files for easy packing onto floppies
+(should that be necessary).
+
+The compat1x, compat20 and compat21 directories contain distributions
+for compatibility with older releases and are distributed as single
+gzip'd tar files - they can be installed during release time or later
+by running their `install.sh' scripts.
+
+A typical distribution (we'll use the info distribution as an example)
+looks like this:
+
+CHECKSUM.MD5    info.ab         info.ad         info.inf        install.sh
+info.aa         info.ac         info.ae         info.mtree
+
+The CHECKSUM.MD5 file contains MD5 signatures for each file, should
+data corruption be suspected, and is purely for reference - it is not
+used by the actual installation and does not need to be copied with
+the rest of the distribution files.  The info.a* files are split,
+gzip'd tar files, the contents of which can be viewed by doing:
+
+	cat info.a* | tar tvzf -
+
+During installation, they are automatically concatenated and extracted
+by the installation procedure.
+
+The info.inf file is also necessary since it is read by the installation
+program in order to figure out how many pieces to look for when fetching and
+concatenating the distribution.  When putting distributions onto floppies,
+the .inf file MUST occupy the first floppy of each distribution set!
+
+The info.mtree file is another non-essential file which is provided
+for user reference.  It contains the MD5 signatures of the *unpacked*
+distribution files and can be later used with the mtree(1) program
+to verify the installation permissions and checksums against any possible
+modifications to the file.  When used with the bin distribution, this can
+be an excellent way of detecting trojan horse attacks on your system.
+
+Finally, the install.sh file is for use by those who want to install the
+distribution after installation time.  To install the info distribution from
+CDROM after a system was installed, for example, you'd do:
+
+		cd /cdrom/info
+		sh install.sh
+
+And that's all there is to it!  Each distribution contains its own
+install.sh file for this.
+
+
+The floppies subdirectory contains the floppy installation images and
+the floppies/README.TXT file should be read for further information
+on them.
+
+The packages and ports directories contain the FreeBSD packages and
+ports collections.   Packages may be installed from the packages directory
+by running the /stand/sysinstall utility with the argument ``configPackages''
+or by feeding the individual filenames to the pkg_add(1) command.
+
+The ports collection may be installed like any other distribution
+and requires about 30MB unpacked.  More information on the ports collection
+may be obtained from http://www.freebsd.org/ports or locally from
+file:/usr/share/doc/handbook if you've installed the doc distribution.
+
+Last of all, the tools directory contains various DOS tools for
+discovering disk geometries, installing boot managers and the like.
+It is purely optional and provided only for user convenience.