Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 05:44:30 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Fl=FCgel?= <Jeff.Kelly@t-online.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD via DSL? Message-ID: <3C9D67BE.5050502@cream.org> References: <004501c1d2ae$fb5f16e0$594bfea9@bender>
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Christian Flügel wrote: >Hello Folks, > >I want to do an ftp install of freebsd via dsl but couldn't find anything >about it in the Handbook or on the web. > >Has anybody already done this if it is possible? And could this someone >please give me advice? > I think it really depends on how your DSL connection is presented to your machine. If it is as an ethernet port, on the back of a DSL router for example, then you can just add a NIC to your FreeBSD system and tell sysinstall to do an FTP install using the NIC. FreeBSD should be configured with IPs and DNS servers however you normally configure machines to use your DSL connection. If you need PPP over Ethernet, this is do-able using the information on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html - When you install FreeBSD you can just tell sysinstall that you are doing a modem install, and it will then start ppp on a seperate console and leave you to make the connection. Typing in the commands that the above pages tells you to put into the config file should enable you to bring up the PPPoE connection. If you need PPP over ATM, it is considerably more difficult. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html explains that the only PPPoA support comes from a net/pppoa port which is not available during installation. Given this, it may be easier to download some ISOs of FreeBSD CDs over your DSL connection and do a local install from CD. > >Install via modem is possible so I assume that the pppd is already on one of >the bootdisks but somehow I do not seem to be able to access a console >during installation and therefore I am not able to configure the ppp so that >it uses the Network adapter. > Actually it is ppp not pppd that is on the bootdisk. When you select a modem install ppp is started for you and you are given the opportunity to set it up however you want. Hope this helps! Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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