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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:05:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Krügier <mikee@tht.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bugs in boot floppy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128120508.18405D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34CCC083.3356DA43@tht.net>

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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Michael Krügier wrote:

> Makers of the FreeBSD boot floppy-- this is for you!
> 
> There seems to be an error in the boot disk - when using the ppp dialup
> the ppp program gives an error when starting saying that it cannot
> create /var/run/tun0.pid

That's not a problem.

> ignoring this error and dialing to my isp i connected only to find that
> it could not lookup your ftp server. Problems I like to solve so I
> downloaded the /bin directory from the distribution and installed it
> from msdos... BAD MOVE the install errored out on the 16th floppy
> because of checksum errors.

Try running `add 0 0 HISADDR' after you finish dialing in and get the PPP>
prompt.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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