From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 22:02:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06544 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06404 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08240; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:01:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sfarrell) To: Ron Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't Configure and Download FreeBSD References: <355A70C7.78C68B55@pcisys.com> From: sfarrell@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 14 May 1998 00:01:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: Ron Scott's message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 22:19:19 -0600" Message-ID: <8790o54f99.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ron Scott writes: > I was able to create the image boot disk, and it did boot my system, but > I was unable to properly configure my system or to get FreeBSD > downloaded from the FTP site. I could not even get it to access my > modem. I am completely confused, and could find nothing in the FAQ or > the Handbook to address final configuration and download issues. Most of > the help seems to be directed at getting the image disk going, which I > thought was very easy compared with what happened once it booted up. Which was... ? Chances are that you'd have a much easier time doing an installation from CDRom. It'll also be faster, and if you order from cheap bytes (www.cheap-bytes.com, iirc), it'll be cheaper. It might be better to throw down the $$ for the walnut creek edition, which contains an installation manual. I'd imagine an installation over modem would be quite a tedious exercise in patience. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message