From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 10:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24079 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24014 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10605; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:54:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Scott Bogert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused. In-Reply-To: <000001bda0c1$e864e2e0$c7a6fea9@lisa> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Scott Bogert wrote: > It says in the documentation that the boot floppy (which i have successfully > created) will get and set up the files automatically. You can't mean from a > dial-up isp. All the software for dialing the connection etc. couldn't fit > on one little floppy could it? Yes it can. It's compressed but it does fit, barely. > And if it could...you say that you need your IP address, and that of > your server (the dial-server?), if my IP address is assigned by my > server, then how could i know in advance what it is? (or will all this > be taken care of automattically by the software, seems i read something > to that effect). No, PPP is smart, it'll deal with it. You may have to type `add 0 0 HISADDR' after connecting on the PPP> prompt though. > If i knew what files to download to my windows HDD (I wish to install > FreeBDS on my second HDD) then i would be happy to do that. looking at all > the files, directories, and subdirectories is somewhat overwhelming to a > novice like me. I read (in a single sentence as a side note) that i should > grab the files bin/manpages/compat*/doc/src/ssys*. if i stash that/those on > my c drive, will the boot floppy allow me to install them onto the D: drive? As long as drive C: is a FAT disk (not FAT32), you can do it. These install methods are all detailed in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT . > (i am pretty sure the answer is yes...i thought i saw that as i made a dry > run thru the installation procedure, just making sure). but will that/those > be enough to allow me to boot off of the D: drive (FreeBDS) and then dial > into my isp and then install the rest of the files from an ftp site? That is one way. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message