Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:03:31 -0600 From: topcat@sk.sympatico.ca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: wanted: FreeBSD via FTP Message-ID: <3658C273.9F2@sk.sympatico.ca>
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I have been through your website at http://www.freebsd.org and I am still very much unclear about how to install and configure FreeBSD, which I am VERY interested in. I have a small LAN setup, with internet access (PPP) via WIN95. This win95 machine is connected via ethernet and NetBeui to another machine running DOS 6.22. Just how the heck to I install via FTP to the DOS machine?? Your website has provided me with some of the most vague instructions one could ever encounter! I only know my DNS necessary to dial up my Internet Service Provider using Dial Up Networking in WIN95. Once connected to my ISP Iam assigned a dynamic IP address. Yeah, sure I can go to your FTP or mirror sites, but how many files to I need to download and HOW do they end up where they should be on the DOS client? Obviously the DOS client can see my Win95 machine, but not in reverse! DOS provides no method of sharing a drive! Do I boot the DOS machine using a FreeBSD floppy that I have made? If so, how the heck does that same DOS machine then see the WIN95 machine and vice versa??? Does the boot floppy automatically configure a NetBeui connection to the WIN95 machine, and enable sharing?!! I consider myself to be very fluent running DOS and Windows 95, and I am no further ahead in my understanding of installing, configuring and using FreeBSD to access the internet after reading the material on your website thoroughly. Clearly I am frustrated by the lack of concise FTP install information. I really would appreciate some help. I have heard some great things about FreeBSD and am looking forward to one day (SOON!) getting it up and running. Many, many thanks in advance. [end] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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