From owner-freebsd-small Wed Apr 11 17:59:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from FreeBSD.dfw.dynip.com (ppp01-580.algx.iadfw.net [207.136.25.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD01837B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@dfw.dynip.com) Received: from frank.dfw.com ([192.168.100.20]) by FreeBSD.dfw.dynip.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3C0wkm02122 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:58:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from frank@dfw.dynip.com) Message-ID: <000701c0c2eb$b7323d40$1464a8c0@dfw.com> Reply-To: "Frank Griffith" From: "Frank Griffith" To: Subject: Newbie questions Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:57:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been using FreeBSD almost 4 years now and while I know alot, I certainly don't know it all. For example I just started to hear about floppy based setups last year and only this morning figured out what PicoBSD was all about. So I tried downloading the files and have yet to work out the details, but I feel I'll get there. I do have the following questions I was hoping someone can answer quickly before I proceed: 1. I see there are 3 basic modules, ppp, network and router. I have all three files but was not sure if I will be able to run all three modules from a single floppy. That is I want to boot from floppy and run a NAT gateway for a small LAN to the Internet. Is this possible? 2. Will this setup work with a modem set for COM3, IRQ5 or do I have to compile a special kernel like I did for 4.2-REL to use this same modem? 3. After several hours of researching the LinuxRouter stuff and PicoBSD I found several dead links and the usual intructions that require more than my level of experience. Is there a comprehensive site for newbies and intermediates on PicoBSD? For example, one of the PicoBSD docs instructs to get the file picobsd.tgz but try as I may at all the known FTP site, I could not find this file available. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message