From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 01:45:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA20183 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 May 1995 01:45:48 -0700 Received: from simon.sfsu.edu (simon.sfsu.edu [130.212.42.98]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA20177 for ; Fri, 26 May 1995 01:45:46 -0700 Received: (from ranger@localhost) by simon.sfsu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.11) id BAA10005; Fri, 26 May 1995 01:42:29 -0700 Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 01:42:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Ranger To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: humble request Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk FreeBSD gurus, After a long stubborn (exhaustive) fight with FreeBSD, I'm breaking down and asking for help :) So here it goes... First off, I want to get FreeBSD setup to run with a PPP connection, and basicly be my little on ramp to Inet. My box is: Processor: 486/66 (AST machine) BIOS - IBM (ver. AST Advantage! Pro 1.01) Memory: 4 Megs (please, no laughing :)), 30 Megs SWAP SVGA monitor serial mouse Western Digital 250 Meg HD & Conner 850 Meg HD (seen as 813M by FreeBSD) (44 meg of the 250 and all of the 850 are for FreeBSD, both IDE) CDROM (single speed), with an 8 bit sound blaster sound card. Recently Ive tried: 1) Moved from Linux to FreeBSD, hoping to change for the better :) 2) Went to install FreeBSD, It wouldn't read my CDROM. So, I copied what I thought would be needed from the CD to the DOS partition. I only had room for the Bindist, Man pages, srcdist, some of the source code, and X (which wouldn't install), I copied these from the CD to my Dos HD with the same directory tree. Then I installed them on the FreeBSD side, and was able to boot Freebsd. I copied pine over from the dos partition, and attempted to compile a friendlier editor than vi. It crashed, and failed to compile. 3) I next decided to concentrate on getting my PPP up and running so I could ftp the whole current FreeBSD distribution, But.. the method in which I was familar with 'cu'ing to another system isn't the same as in freebsd. I tried just testing the pppd by trying to lanch it.. without being connected. I got the error: PPP not supported by this system. After investigating.. and asking around.. I was told that I had to recompile my kernel (a first for me). I was totally over my head, looking at the GENERIC file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, so I purchased some BSD Manauls. They were informative.. but not as PC orentated as I'd liked. After several attempts at compiling a kernel, I got one to compile. I took GENERIC, add the QUOTA option and the PPP peusdo-device, and it compiled. I rebotteded with the new kernel, and I still am unable to start the PPP deamon, or figure out how to access my modem. Simply put: 1) How do I access my PPP deamon? 2) How do I access my Modem, to call my provider? 3) How do I get the current release from the ftp site, and is there some procise instructions as to HOW-TO install it? Some other questions: 4) How do I enable disk quota? 5) How do I enablee system accounting? 6) Is there a driver for my cdrom ( a complete installation might go a long way) 7) How do I get other editors installed? (pico, emacs, etc..) I REALLY appreciate any and all suggestions, 1-3 are the most important to me at the moment. I appologize, for the spammy longwinded letter, and please forgive the typos Its really late. humbly thankful, Tom Riley P.S. I have the majority of the O'Reilly and Associates books on UNIX.. so if anyone can refer me to insteresting relevant sections from those books, I'll re-read those sections. So far there isn't much on setting up a BSD system. that I can find :) Again, Thanks for your time, and help! :) ****************************************************************** * ranger@worldbit.com ranger@simon.sfsu.edu * * Tom Riley Janitor of BayMOO * * ------------------------ * * He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. * * -Unknown * ******************************************************************