From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 5 07:55:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA03564 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 07:55:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from revelstone.jvm.com (revelstone.jvm.com [207.98.213.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA03554 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 07:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from freyes.dh.i-2000.com (slip166-72-219-230.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.219.230]) by revelstone.jvm.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA21427; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 10:55:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701051555.KAA21427@revelstone.jvm.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSd Chat list" , "tphilips@cedar.netten.net" Date: Sun, 05 Jan 97 10:55:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Couple of newbie questions Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 05 Jan 1997 08:57:51 -0600, Tracy E. Phillips wrote: I am far from been a FreeBSD expert (I have not even been able to ge ppp to work with my ISP Advantis), but until someone else answers I could give you some initial pointers. >I have use Linux for a while so i am quite used to bash. How can i make >bash the system default? vipw. Before you change the shell you need to install it. I think that it is not installed by default so you have you to install it from the packages. >What are ide drives called under FreeBSD? My drives under Linux are: It depends on whether the drive is IDE or SCSI. I think IDEs are WD# where # is the drive number starting with 0. >Can you alter the location that /stand/sysinstall looks for packages? >Since i do not have FreeBSD on cdrom i therefore have my packages on >another partition. What do you mean by "I hve my packages on another partition"? What type of partition? DOS? I am writing this note from OS/2 so can't check right now, but I think you can go into options/media and tell the install program where you are picking up the packages from. If you could connect to the internet then you could download the packages from one of the sites. Good luck. ps Did you tried posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list? The address of the list is doc@freebsd.org. You join it the same way you joined the chat mailing list (send email to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with the text "subscribe freebsd-questions" or if you prefer the digest then use "subscribe freebsd-questions-digest".