Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:34:59 +0200 From: Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> To: ajay gopalakrishnan <geek.dwells@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation. Message-ID: <45F69A73.6090401@sun-fish.com> In-Reply-To: <b8c16adc0703130523h6a94466chadd1184d43bbb0d8@mail.gmail.com> References: <b8c16adc0703130523h6a94466chadd1184d43bbb0d8@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, This mail have to be in questions not hackers, but anyway .. ajay gopalakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently installed FreeBSD release 6.2 successfully except that the > following things that i need importantly dont work. How should i do > these? > > 1. I am using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). I am running FreeBSD on > Vmware and > i set the network connection as "Bridged" on Vmware. I configured my > Ethernet device with the correct IP, Gateway, Netmask, DNS but i dont > know > how to start my internet on FreeBSD. All i do to connect to the > internet on > Windows is give my username and password. I also read the PPPoE > chapter on > the FreeBSD manual but of no use. How should i start PPoE on FreeBSD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pppoe.html, but better look for "mpd" > > 2. I need Vim. I dont want to use Vi. I searched in my CD-1 and CD-2. > But i > could not find the package "vim" inside it. Since i am not able to > connect > to the internet is there any other way to install Vim ? well if you do not have the source or the packages .. you have to find a way to download it :) > > 3. How should i configure FreeBSD to start in X mode directly. > Currently i > have to do startx to start X on my machine. take a look at xdm, kdm and gdm :) > > 4. I want to make "bash" as the default shell instead of "csh". Where is > that configured? man vipw > > 5. Where are the kernel sources located? I need it because i want to do > kernel network programming? Is having kernel sources sufficient or > there are > other dependencies also? src/sys are kernel sources. Where depends on your installation (normally /usr/src/sys/) > > 6. How do developers usually keep their kernel sources in sync with > the main > Central Kernel source? Do we use CVS or Subversion for this? if you are using freebsd 6.2 - man csup But best place to start is reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ and once you are familiar with FreeBSD you can read "developers handbook". > > Thanks & Regards, > Ajay. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177
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