From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 06:23:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05368 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05350 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 06:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA06193; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:21:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:21:20 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Scott Bogert cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused. In-Reply-To: <000001bda0c1$e864e2e0$c7a6fea9@lisa> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Scott Bogert wrote: > It says in the documentation that the boot floppy (which i have successfully > created) will get and set up the files automatically. You can't mean from a > dial-up isp. Sure do. > All the software for dialing the connection etc. couldn't fit > on one little floppy could it? Yes it does. This is not M$ bloatware. :) > And if it could...you say that you need your > IP address, and that of your server (the dial-server?), if my IP address is > assigned by my server, then how could i know in advance what it is? (or will > all this be taken care of automattically by the software, seems i read > something to that effect). Just enter 0.0.0.0 as the addresses for both ends of the connection and it will set them accordingly once the connection is made. > If i knew what files to download to my windows HDD (I wish to install > FreeBDS on my second HDD) then i would be happy to do that. That's the hard way. It WILL dial your ISP and allow you to grab everything you need. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null Mail from netcom.com blocked until they stop relaying SPAM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message