From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:29:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28027 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:29:38 -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 OAA27950 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06379; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:28:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "kraise ." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom filename problem In-Reply-To: <19981005133718.23849.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 Mon, 5 Oct 1998, kraise . wrote: > Hi, i am having a slight problem w/ my non-official distribution cd. > I read the docs on it and it seems that the files are all supposes to > have lower-case names, like floppies, ports, etc.. well mine are all > FLOPPIES, PORTS, and such... is there a way I can change the filenames? On a burnt CD? I'd love to see that. (And no CD-RWs) Generally you burn the CD on a FreeBSD machine s you get the RockRidge extensions, or I think there is an option to mkisofs that specifies lowercase filenames. > i thought that perhaps i could simply ftp a minimal install, and install > the rest of the stuff by hand, but that won't work either. for one, > FreeBSD thinks my printer is a modem and it also thinks cua0 (COM1 for > DOS peeps) is my modem ppp0 device. well my modem is on cua2 (COM 3) and > i cant figure out how to change that setting in the bootdisk. i am also > on a dynamic IP and i dont have another computer so I cant gateway it... You need to configure pppd's device. See the pppd manpage. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message