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From: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu>
To: john@starfire.mn.org
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions),
        michaels@starfire.mn.org (Michael Stanley)
Subject: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation?
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<john@starfire.mn.org> writes:
> Are there detailed, step-by-step instructions for installing via
> FTP over dial-up PPP?  Like, how you talk to the modem, how you
> specify your authentication information, and so on?  Or is the
> solution to find a working FreeBSD system and learn to use the
> ppp program (as apposed to pppd)?

This depends on what you mean by detailed, step-by-step instructions.
But your statement below is confusing.

> A friend of mine just bought a new GateWay system with an ATAPI
> CD-ROM, and neither the 2.1.0 atapi.flp nor the 2.1.5 atapi.flp
> images recognize it, though we know it is working, since it operates
> as expected under the pre-installed Windows95.

If you have the CD, why not install from the CD instead of the net?
Oh, well, you can't get the CD to work ...

I have not installed from CD before, but I imagine that somewhere near
the top of the file structure will be the README files:

HARDWARE.TXT
INSTALL.TXT
KNOWNBUG.TXT
README.TXT
RELNOTES.TXT

which I imagine you can obtain when you mount the CD from Win95.  Read
these files.  The INSTALL.TXT document contains a fairly detailed
section on how to install over ppp, if you still want to go with that
route.  Otherwise, I believe the ATAPI driver wants the CDROM drive to
be the slave drive of the secondary IDE controller (a second IDE
controller running on irq 15).

-- James