From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 22:28:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA29967 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29961 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00792; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:27:50 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:27:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Richards cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More questions following SUCCESSFUL Installation In-Reply-To: <9606200835.AA21219@zyqad.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I can answer some of these... On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, John Richards wrote: > 2. My /etc/services file is very small having only 5 entries. Is this correct? > The machine I'm writing this from - a DEC alpha 3000 has a much larger services > file. I assume that once I get my FreeBSD box connected to the net I'm going to > have to add the services as needed - n'est pas? The upgrade procedure is broke in this regard. Just borrow the services file off of your favorite computer or get it out of the distributions (the 'etc' dist I think) or the CVS tree (from the web site). > 3. To get Sendmail, DNS, TCP/IP, PPP etc working do I just install the > appropriate package? Sendmail: comes configured ready to go. DNS: Comes with the system, just needs to be configured and enabled in /etc/sysconfig. Check /etc/namedb/... and the named man page. > 4. How do I make use of the live filesystem disk? Does this mean that I don't > need to install all packages that I want if I only want some occasionally? Mount and access like any other disk. One of the uses I know is that the full sources are expanded on it, so you can use the 'lndir' utility to store the sources on the CD. Saves disk space. > 5. Any hints about clearing up the flutter on X11 at high resolution > appreciated. You'll have to hack /etc/XF86Config and modify the modelines for your monitor and display card. It's not easy. There is a doc in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major