From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 16:03:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA10940 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plethora.cs.wustl.edu (plethora.cs.wustl.edu [128.252.165.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA10934 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jxh@localhost) by plethora.cs.wustl.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA00435; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:03:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:03:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610082303.SAA00435@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> From: James Hu To: john@starfire.mn.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation? In-Reply-To: <199610080342.WAA13725@starfire.mn.org> References: <199610080010.TAA29135@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> <199610080342.WAA13725@starfire.mn.org> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, writes: > James wrote: >> HARDWARE.TXT >> INSTALL.TXT >> KNOWNBUG.TXT >> README.TXT >> RELNOTES.TXT > I should also have mentioned that I read all of these, and INSTALL.TXT > has a rather cursory and superficial description of what to do -- > sort of on the order of a summary, but no details. I did look > there, first. What didn't you understand? I am sure that the FreeBSD team want input on this. It is not their intention to leave newcomers to FreeBSD confused. >> 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). > Hmmm. Anyway to get it to look at a slave drive on the PRIMARY > controller??? If we could get that working, it'd be best for us. I don't know of a way to do this. Perhaps someone on the FreeBSD team can provide you with a boot floppy set in this manner? -- James