From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 21 20:01:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27908 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stuart.apk.net (as5-1.apk.net [207.54.160.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27754 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cr@krivis.com) Received: from krivis.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stuart.apk.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12595 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:56:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cr@krivis.com) Message-ID: <358DC7D3.8E259C24@krivis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:56:19 -0400 From: Charlie Root Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: couple of questions from a new user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I finally got FreeBSD working more or less. I first tried FBSD at ver 2.1.5 and was never able to get dialup ppp working. 2.2.2 was tried a while back, and now 2.2.6. So, this is a big moment here! (Oddly enough, I never had these problems with linux.) The first problem I had was that FreeBSD didn't like my IDE drives. The "probing devices" msg at the begining of the install just sat there while one of the drives was accessed constantly. Not a huge problem since I wanted to install on a SCSI drive anyway. So, I disabled the IDE interface. The install was ok after that. (Except that the Cheapbytes CD seem to have a corrupt ports tarball on it. I don't think Cheapbytes is the place to go for anything but linux.) On rebooting, I attempted to re-enable the IDE drives. No go. It wouldn't even boot. It got to Booteasy, I pressed F1, and I got a continuous scrolling error message. So, back to no IDE. And I have a FreeBSD system. Played with the sample files in /etc/ppp and got things to work enough to get a connection. I do get an error message though... Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0: errno: Network is unreachable. I assume I goofed in ppp.conf. But it doesn't matter since that gets removed anyway. And ppp does work. I would like to get my IDE drives working. Anyone have any ideas? Also, does FreeBSD support vfat or ntfs? My vfat partitions are /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5 in linux. Any idea what that might translate to in FreeBSD? This slice thing is a bit foreign to me. (Never figured it out in Solaris either.) TIA, -stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message