From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 23:38:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18418 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAB18409 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id XAA28568; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:38:38 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id XAA14774; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 23:37:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Ron Scott cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't Configure and Download FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <355A70C7.78C68B55@pcisys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 May 1998, Ron Scott wrote: >I was able to create the image boot disk, and it did boot my system, but >I was unable to properly configure my system or to get FreeBSD >downloaded from the FTP site. I could not even get it to access my >modem. I am completely confused, and could find nothing in the FAQ or The issue you need to research is PPP. Hopefully a modem user will help you here shortly. Once you get the modem working you will see some of the configuration things fall into place. >the Handbook to address final configuration and download issues. Most of >the help seems to be directed at getting the image disk going, which I >thought was very easy compared with what happened once it booted up. The term "final configuration" is not quite useful in this context. The boot floppy (once you get PPP working) will leave you with a fully functioning FreeBSD operating system. You need to do _nothing_ else. That is, you need to do nothing else if there is nothing that you want to do. :) Your next step will probably be to install some software. Maybe you want to install pine/pico for email and text editing. Maybe you want to install netscape navigator or star office. If you are really motivated you may compile your first custom kernel. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message