Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 01:06:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Trencher <bradb@erinet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: for you guys.. earlyer. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960611005841.5035S-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606110221.WAA27671@eri.erinet.com>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Trencher wrote: > thanks for the help! i didn't think i would get a reply in the same > day!!! It happens sometimes. :-) > since iam a dos & win95(should have been called sh*t95, does even > have a 32bit filesystem but yet it is a > 32bit operating system. that seems to me > being ass backwards!!!) Welcome to Microsoft. > what is the best editor that is like edit for dos??? i haven't found > one yet! i tried jove,iv or vi, and ee. they all seem to fall shy of > what edit for dos is like. you may be interested in pico. Pico comes with Pine (the excellent mail package) so you get two nice (but big) programs in one package. > and another i have my modem on com4 and when installing it won't set > it up for com4(modem wise), and i really don't want to take my modem > out and change the hd controller( it becomes a annoying task! ). I don't quite understand what you're asking. could you be more specific as to what you're doing? > here is another i couldn't find anything about installing from a dos > partition that told me how to setup the dir for the packages, and ports. > i always get can't find index blah blah blah. :( sysinstall won't install packages from a DOS partition. What you need to do is eithe get your CD working under FreeBSD (if you have one) or copy the archive from the DOS FS to a FreeBSD directory, restoring the filename to what it was. For example, if you have a package that got munged to TCSH6.03, then you need to copy it to your freebsd partition and change the name back to what it was, adding the '.tgz' extension. cp /dos/TCSH6.03 tcsh-6.03.tgz Then run 'pkg_add' to add it: pkg_add tcsh-6.03.tgz two things I would recommend for you: If you ordered the 2.1 CDROM, call Walnut Creek back and order the "Installing and Running FreeBSD" book. All sorts of beginners stuff for free. Can't beat that! And if you didn't order the CD, buy the book anyway. Secondly, become good friends with the freeBSD web site <http://www.freebsd.org>, especially the document and search sections. Lots of good info there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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