From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 12:53:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5180916A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:53:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from server945.gisol.com (server945.gisol.com [207.44.208.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BA843D70 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:53:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@countrypure.net) Received: from 216-229-72-31-dialup-mo.fidnet.com ([216.229.72.31] helo=countrypure.net) by server945.gisol.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ags1G-0002EP-83; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0800 Message-ID: <4005ABF3.4010004@countrypure.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:52:03 -0600 From: Quintin Riis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Adams References: <0EA66CC4-4634-11D8-97CC-000393C505EC@sprynet.com> In-Reply-To: <0EA66CC4-4634-11D8-97CC-000393C505EC@sprynet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server945.gisol.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - countrypure.net cc: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:53:50 -0000 See http://speecart.chg.ru/handbook/disks-bios-numbering.html Quintin John Adams wrote: > On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:57 PM, fbsd_user wrote: > >> Try this command to mount the cd drive. >> First load the 4.6 install cd in cd drive >> mount /cdrom >> cd /cdrom >> ls >> cd / >> umount /cdrom > > > Success! > >> look at the etc/fstab to see how cd drive is configured > > > Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > >> Explain how you switch from booting winme to booting FBSD > > ================================================================ > I've yet to learn how to tell the bootloader to boot from the primary > drive, so I just change the order of the drives in BIOS. ================================================================= > >> Verify floppy drive works in winme. > > > And there's the answer--I believe this drive is dead. I recall it making > noises some time ago, and it must've gone over the edge. Fortunately, > Atlanta has some good stores--I've been wanting to pop down to the one > by Tech for a while now, and this is as good an excuse as any. > > This brings me back to the modem question. I can type in the entries > from ppp.conf and ppp.log--or I suppose I could try to learn to write to > the FAT partition elsewhere on this drive, which I'm not unwilling to do > (shouldn't be hard, which is what I thought about the modem.) > > Advice? And thanks again, > > John A > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >