Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:52:05 -0500 (EST) From: soupman <soup@m-net.arbornet.org> To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD via FTP with a PPP link via direct serialconnection using a null modem cable from a Windows 95 computer. Message-ID: <20031230235056.K10420-100000@m-net.arbornet.org>
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Installing FreeBSD via FTP with a PPP link via direct serial connection using a null modem cable from a Windows 95 computer. Here's how to do it: Windows ------- 1. Download the file http://www.kevin-wells.com/net/mdmcbx.inf 2. Open the contol panel. 3. Select modems 4. Click add. 5. Select the option to choose the modem from a list. 6. Click the 'disk' button which allows you to supply the modem information file. Type the location of the file mdmcbx.inf. 7. Select Generic Null Modem. 8. Select COM1 as the port. 9. Install the modem. 10. Open the 'dial up networking' folder. 11. Create a new connection. 12. Name it 'Incoming PPP connection' (or whatever you like). 13. Choose 'Generic NULL modem' as the modem type. 14. Click the configure button. 15. Under the 'general' tab, make sure the speed is set to 115200 and the port is COM1. 15. Under the 'connection' tab, hit advanced. Make sure CTS/RTS is on. 16. Under the 'options' tab, make sure only the 'display modem status' option is selected. 16. Enter a phone number (won't be used, but required). 17. Create the connection. 18. Download an FTP server for windows (such as GuildFTPd or Fictional Daemon). 19. Install the server and run it. 20. Choose a username and password and allow that user to log in. 21. Place all the installation files in a directory on the windows machine named ...\FREEBSD\xxx-RELEASE, with xxx-RELEASE set as the proper release value for the distribution (for example, C:\TEMP\PUB\FREEBSD\4.8-RELEASE). 22. With the user you created with the FTP server, set its home directory to ...\FREEBSD. Make sure you give read access for that directory to your account. FreeBSD ------- 1. Start the FreeBSD installation. 2. At the 'installation media' page, choose 'Options'. 3. At the 'FTP username' option, press the spacebar. 4. Enter your username and password that you chose when configuring the windows FTP server. 5. Make sure the 'Release name' option is set the same as the directory of the location of the installation files on the windows machine. 6. Scroll to the 'Media Type' option. Press the spacebar. 7. At the 'installation media' page, choose 'FTP' (2). 8. Select 'URL'. 9. Set ftp://192.168.1.0 as the URL. 10. At the 'network interface information' page, choose the 'PPP interface on device /dev/cuaa0 (COM1)' option. 11. Hit 'NO' until you reach the 'network configuration' page. 12. Type a name for the host, and 192.168.1.1 for the IPv4 address. 13. Choose OK. Just accept all the default options by choosing OK or YES until you reach the message that the PPP command has been started. 14. Switch to the window that allows you to interact with the PPP shell. 15. Type the following at the PPP prompt: set dial set device /dev/cuaa0 set speed 115200 set ctsrts on set timeout 900 disable ipv6cp set ifaddr 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.0 16. The two computers are now ready to communicate. Make sure they are connected with a null modem cable! The Connection ---------------- 1. Open the 'dial up networking' folder on the Windows machine. 2. Double-click the 'Incoming PPP connection' icon. 3. Hit connect. Simultaneously on the FreeBSD box type 'term' and type ~p to enter packet mode. 4. Wait for the connection to be established (the prompt should change to three capital Ps on the FreeBSD machine, and the Windows machine should show a connection has been established). 5. Continue with the FreeBSD installation by pressing enter at the message and Q at the options page.
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