From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 03:16:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA01439 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.56.101.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA01398 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from station1.ultra.net.au (ochre.colour.ultra.net.au [203.20.237.177]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA15495 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:00:23 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709190900.TAA15495@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Keith Spencer" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 20:15:11 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Install queries...I drew breath &.... Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, Well, I tried to install (I thought a little fore-armed) and ....I have got a few problems. Would you mind helping me ? My system is Intel pentium 120, 32 Mb Ram, 1.1 Gb IDE ( 450Mb Dos partition & rest for bsd) Mitsumi CD, 1.44M Floppy, Display IRQ 9, 03C0 - 03DF Mouse on Com1, Modem on Com2 Lpt0 & Lpt1 (bsd speak!) Kingstone DEC 21040 type PCI eth card SB 16 Creative compatable Sound card IRQ 5, 220 & up I/O What I am trying to achieve... I want this machine to be a gateway (router) for a 20 machine LAN I want it to dial in to my ISP at 33.6 k I want it a web server on it (Apache will do) I want it to route through to my ISP for the LAN so I can use Win e-mail & web clients. At the moment I have the bootmanager working ok (neat trick that) I was able to install with conflicts removed...some netcards or something cause the CD and mouse to have conflicts. I went through all processes involved in install with the NOVICE install option. BUT I encountered things I didn't understand.... a) Do I want to be an NFS server or client? What is it ? Do I need it? b) Setting up Apache, must I type in the hostname, or will it fetch it from the conf somewhere and return the FQDN. i.e. is this option only to define something other than the default? What do I put in for the Default user & Group? At the moment it has "BIN" in these fields by default (what does that mean?) c) I chose network interface option. I wished to set up PPP on com2 (the modem) I put in my relevant ISP info. It then told me to use the PPP utility to connect. I don't understand why I am asked to do this. The help seems to read as though it is so I can install bsd through PPP! I am doing a CD install. Do I ignore this section and follow userPPPinstall in the docs later? If not, I don't understand how to use the cli ppp I am confronted with. quit = lock up I found!...Is that an undocumented feature ; ^) d) After reboot I was unable to login in as the user I created. I told it I wanted to be in group wheel ...is that right? I did (or thought I did) everything correctly (as best I could understand help) I don't really understand the group thing (NT4.0 let's talk groups...bsd..groups = ???). In fact I stumbled across the user id "root" which let me in without password!! (oops) I had set the system root password in install. But it didn't understand (I tried my user login i'd created & would have su - to root but I couldn't get in. e) I chose to install Squid 1.1 but when I first booted (encountering the above hassles) It kept interrupting the screen in a loop of 3 or 4 lines...complaing that squid shouldn't be started as root etc etc. Whoa...what does that mean & how can I avoid it? It did this even befor login was allowed to be attempted Hope this makes any sense at all. I is a bit vague to me ( I am trying to understand...I do tend to read docs but am too new to this alien and hence "Bill Gates unfriendly" world) Thank you so much in advance Keith Spencer Teacher...St Margaret Marys College Townsville Australia