Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:31:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Lanny Baron <lannyb@cybertouch.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting BSD from home over the NET Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728171928.381C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <02550937700601@cybertouch.com>
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On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Lanny Baron wrote: > I have downloaded and used, rawrite.exe and boot.flp from cdrom.com > under FreeBSD, packages, floppies OK, you're off to a good start here. > The problem I am encountering is that when it comes to the part > about the PPP dialer, nothing happens, the modem doesn't work. I > even went downtown here in Toronto, Canada to where my servers are > and tried to get your programs to work on a server we have ready for > BSD. I am (downtown) connected to the Internet via Ethernet, but > because our system is Windows NT, we had the sever I now intend to > use for BSD removed from the domain. That probably is why I could > not get your program to connect to the net, at least via Ethernet. > Maybe you know a way in which I can get this to work from both home > (via ppp connection) and from our servers downtown. If you have local Ethernet, for heaven's sake use it! That is the next easiest install than CDROM. You can take two tracks this way: 1) FTP directly from ftp.freebsd.org. Slow but works. 2) FTP the files from ftp.freebsd.org to a local FTP site then point install at that machine. We did this here to upgrade a few of our systems to 2.1.5. This way makes it much easier to build or upgrade other systems without the delay from ftp.freebsd.org. Assuming your Ethernet card is supported. For your PPP problem, my guess is one of: 1) The modem device is wrong. At the ppp> prompt, type "show modem" and see where the modem device is set. COM1: will be "/dev/cuaa0" and COM2: will be "/dev/cuaa1". If those are wrong, type "set device /dev/cuaa?" replacing ? with the appropriate number. If your modem is on COM3 or 4, the GENERIC kernel doesn't support those ports, so try to move your modem to those ports. Once you get installed you can move them back after you've reconfigured your kernel. > Our company is called CyberTouch Communicatations Inc, we are Full > Internet Service Providers located as stated up above in Toronto, > Canada. It is my understanding that FreeBSD is made for use by > Internet Service Providers. I have had many people who wanted to join > our service but wouldn't because I couldn't provide them with a shell > account. Well, I wouldn't say "Made for ISPs", but very capable of supporting them. I would highly suggest subscribing to the "freebsd-isp" list, where others in your situation are. Send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org with body "subscribe freebsd-isp". > I am the general manager and unfortunately, lack the intense > knowledge one should know to run a business like this. I hope to have > FreeBSD up (I ordered the CDROMS from Walnut Creek anyway) and > running and hope to be able to implement this as our full operating > system. Get ready to learn! :) And buy some books on system admin. Three books that are high on my recommend list are "Unix System Administration, Second Edition" by Evi Nemeth et al, ISBN 0-13-151051-7. and "TCP/IP Network Administration" from O'Reilly, ISBN 0-937175-82-X, and "Installing and Running FreeBSD" from Walnut Creek CDROM (free when you order the FreeBSD CD). > If someone who reads this can help me out, I will be most oblidged > to him/her. questions is the place, which is where you are at <questions@freebsd.org>. > Hope to get a reply,, > thanks for reading this and if I can get it going and working well, > I would not object to being mirror for you as we are connected by > ethernet to a T-3 upstairs If you want to be an official mirror, let us know and we'll work something out. Such a connection would be a great help to us, since our main ftp site, even though it can support 1200 FTP users, can use some relief! Hope this helps. Let me know if I've missed something. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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