From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 25 07:31:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12827 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:31:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from onyx.kachinatech.com (root@[204.238.18.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12817 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from intersoft@onyx.kachinatech.com) Received: from ts1-1.ny.cnct.com (ts1-3.ny.cnct.com [207.111.66.103]) by onyx.kachinatech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA03566 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 08:23:05 -0700 Received: by ts1-1.ny.cnct.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BD297D.F89C8520@ts1-1.ny.cnct.com>; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:42:45 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD297D.F89C8520@ts1-1.ny.cnct.com> From: Geoff Marshall To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Installing via PPP Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:42:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA12818 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Your Web site makes a BIG THING about 'Installing via PPP' being simple, but after 5 hrs of frustration I think you should simply quit on this one and tell yr potential new users to get a CD-ROM version and not even think of using PPP. Thought I'd got it right but all I could ever get from the PPP routine was warning can't create /var/run/tun0.pid and when I entered '?' for help the procedure hangs ! Back to yr WEB SITE for help to find very precise instructions on how to cure the problem AFTER COMPLETING INSTALLATION ! Any suggestions ? Or should I quit now with a bad taste and go back to Windows and C++, where the OS may not be very clever but it IS user friendly, OR maybe LINUX does a better job. Geoff Marshall