From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 22:37: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (mti-r1-aptis-4-p2003.cybertrails.com [162.42.15.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB2414BEA for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 22:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@ginger.kf7nn.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ginger.kf7nn.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id WAA78277; Fri, 28 May 1999 22:36:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from root) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990529051843.2350.rocketmail@web607.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:36:52 -0700 (MST) From: laszlo vagner To: Ben Salem Subject: RE: Installation over SLIP Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG use the parrallel port its faster add this to your /etc/rc.conf on one machine and the same thing on the other except in reverse order. make sure you use a bidirectional cable, i made that mistake before! also edit /etc/rc.conf to say gateway="YES" on the 586 machine. thats it i believe. add this to rc.conf ifconfig_lp0="inet 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" On 29-May-99 Ben Salem wrote: > I have a 386 that I would like to install FreeBSD on, > and a 586 running FreeBSD with a connection to the > internet. > > What I would like to do: > > I would like to hook a serial cable up between the 8 > and 586, and use the 586's internet connection to > install FreeBSD on my 386. > > First of all - is this possible? > > If so, would I need to set up IP aliasing or something > of the sort? > > Second: > > I have a cable modem and they supply 3 dynamic IP's > to use, anyone know how I would go about setting up on > of these IP's to the 386 - saving me an 'ip aliasing' > or whatever, headache. > > > Those are pretty vague questions, please excuse my > ignorance of SLIP... > > > Any help would greatly be appreciated, as well as any > documentation pretaining to what I would like to od. > > > Thanks, > Ben Salem > ben177@yahoo.com > http://wafug.dynip.com > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Vetex C/O L. Vagner 3600 W. Mountain Drive Flagstaff, AZ 86001 Webpage: nadxa.com E-Mail: laszlo vagner Date: 28-May-99 Time: 22:31:46 Windows Exception Error: noun: Meaning- With the exception of a reboot anything you do will fail to recover the system. ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message