Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 13:51:34 -0700 From: Laura Blake <lblake@ican.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need a little help deciding... Message-ID: <3527EED6.4F3@ican.net>
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Dear Sirs, I am presently contemplating a change of operating system on my personal computer. My system configuration, at present is this: Intel 386-dx40 (yes I know, I should update that), 8 mb ram, 900mb hard drive on two physical units, Cardinal MVP33I 33.6 modem with internal V-42, Trident 8900d video card with 1mb ram. I'm presently using DOS 6.22 and Win3.1 with a modest complement of programs, mostly used for word processing and ppp dialout to the internet. Now, this won't be your typical BSD type installation as far as I can tell from reading your on-line documentation. What I need to set up is the ability to access this system remotely, preferably while I'm using it locally. I also need something like Unix permissions to keep people out of the places I want them kept out of <G>. The system will not, however be connected to a network. Internet access will be as it is now via ppp dialout. There are, however, two complications: 1) My $#@^ modem is plug and play programmed for i/o port every time I reboot my system. While this will survive most warm boots, it will not survive a hard reset. The problem is that the "PNPSET" utility I use under DOS does not have a BSD, LINUX, or whatever equivalent. This means the only way I can presently activate my modem is by booting into DOS. My requests for information about how this works have gone unanswered by Cardinal itself, and I can't seem to find anyone who knows that that little proggy actually does. (There is a win95 appi for this too, but they are just as secretive about it.) 2) Once in DOS it would be necessary to jump to BSD. Preferably through a simple command like "GOBSD" that can be entered at the dos prompt. I do not want my second OS to actually run "under" DOS, but I will need to be able to start it from DOS. 3) It may be occasionally necessary to exit BSD and return to DOS for various tasks. So I will need something like a "GODOS" command that can be executed under BSD. I realize that BSD can run text mode DOS programs now, but I will neeed to completely exit BSD and return to dos on occasion. Any information you can give me about getting this working would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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