From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 25 13:44:10 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA23299 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 13:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost1.primenet.com (mailhost1.primenet.com [206.165.5.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA23294 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 13:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from primenet.com (bkogawa@usr10.primenet.com [206.165.5.110]) by mailhost1.primenet.com (8.8.3/wjp-h3.00) with ESMTP id OAA28210; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:44:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (bkogawa@localhost) by primenet.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA24877; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:44:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 13:44:03 -0800 (PST) From: Bryan Ogawa Reply-To: Bryan Ogawa To: chat@freebsd.org cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: 2.2-ALPHA config glitch (was Re: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA is now available) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, jack wrote: [...] > Now that we've abandoned 1.2 meg floppies for boot.flp would it be > possible to institute a graceful recovery from dropped carrier on an FTP > install via modem? You can switch back to the PPP session and reestablish > your PPP connection but, AFAIK, you can't pick up the FTP session. > Assuming you've made it past the bin distribution the ability to go into > the `clean up' phase, remake devices, set permissions, copy > kernel.GENERIC, etc.., would at least leave you with a bootable system and > the bells and whistles could be added latter if the /stand directory was > revived. A problem I had with PPP was trying to install with a non-standard COM port. I have my modem on IRQ5, COM4, so I booted up and changed the settings with the config (-c) thing. I set my modem up to be sio1, and then chose ppp on COM2 (presuming that this would be mapped to sio1). Unfortunately, it still used /dev/cuaa0 instead of /dev/cuaa1 . Furthermore, ppp had trouble when this happened, so I was unable to switch to /dev/cuaa1 from the ppp prompt, and had to try again. The second time, I was able to install by immediately changing my device to /dev/cuaa1 in the ppp menu, but this would have probably been less than obvious to someone unfamiliar with FreeBSD. Are the two different ppp options supposed to choose cuaa0 and cuaa1, respectively? I'd suggest putting a pointer in INSTALL.TXT to the user PPP section of the handbook (or better yet, inserting the relevant bits into INSTALL.TXT so that the person who prints it out doesn't have to dig up a net connection after printing). I'll try to suggest specific changes to the INSTALL.TXT in the next few days. Merry Christmas! bryan k. ogawa