Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 00:52:35 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: doc@freefall.FreeBSD.org Cc: faq@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Darryl Okahata: Re: I do not see that this ever made it in to the FAQ?? Message-ID: <11969.813397955@time.cdrom.com>
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Did you guys get these changes? I think they should certainly be
folded in, if not!
Jordan
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To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: I do not see that this ever made it in to the FAQ??
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:52:43 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 16:00:28 -0700
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
> Here's a fragment of some things that I submitted for addition to
> the FAQ (ignore the strange question numbering). Check out the last
> question.
>
> [ Hmm. Looking at these answers, some of them are a bit incomplete.
> Not all possibilities are given. ]
OK, I'll just send you what I sent to the FAQ folks (ignore my
previous message to you). The following consists of diffs relative to
the ASCII version, as that is what the FAQ folks requested.
Also, I noticed that some of the answers are a bit incomplete.
Would you like me to fix them and send you the changes?
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 01:34:43 PDT
To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
cc: gclarkii@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Who's working on the FAQ?
>From owner-freebsd-doc@freefall.cdrom.com Wed Jul 19 01: 44:16 1995
Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org
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[ This is being cc'd to freebsd-doc to get any feedback. ]
> > Has the FAQ been fixed up to handle the following?
> >
> > If not, I'd be willing to submit some entries for these.
>
> Go and send your changes. I'm a little bit short on time for the moment.
Hi,
Here are some changes. In addition to adding some common
questions, I also changed the introduction slightly. The idea is that
someone new to FreeBSD would ask questions like the following:
1. What is FreeBSD?
2. What do I need to run FreeBSD?
3. Where do I get it?
I placed these close to the beginning because they are probably among
the most-asked questions, and burying them in the bowels of the document
would probably frustrate people and make them use Linux. ;-) Anyway,
keep what you think is useful and throw out the rest.
I added a question on "FreeBSD books/documents". I've mentioned
some good books, but I don't know what the FreeBSD policy is regarding
commercial products. Anyway, I've got no connections to any of the
mentioned books/CDROMs, aside from being a customer.
I didn't add/change anything regarding the serial port devices
(e.g., lack of /dev/tty00, etc.), as I haven't had the time. I'm not
sure what changes other people have been making, and so I didn't make a
large amount of changes. If you'd like me to continue fiddling with the
FAQ, just ask.
Areas marked with <X?X> need to be verified/corrected.
Also, the section/question numbering may seem odd. They just need
to be renumbered. I just chose some numbers to make the questions
sequential, and I'm not trying to create some weird question hierarchy.
The patches are relative to rev 1.5 of /usr/share/FAQ/Text/FreeBSD.FAQ.
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
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===============================================================================
*** FreeBSD.FAQ.orig Tue Jul 11 23:23:56 1995
- --- FreeBSD.FAQ Wed Jul 19 00:43:28 1995
***************
*** 33,38 ****
- --- 33,42 ----
Welcome to the FreeBSD 2.0 FAQ! This document tries to answer some of
the most frequently asked questions about FreeBSD 2.0.
+
+ The latest released version is FreeBSD 2.0.5R. <X?X> (What about
+ current snapshots?)
+
If there's something you're having trouble with and you do not see it
here, please send email to:
***************
*** 40,49 ****
Some of the instructions here will also refer to auxiliary utilities
! in the /usr/src/share/FAQ directory. CDROM purchasers and net folks
! who've grabbed the FreeBSD 2.0 `srcdist' will have these files. If
! you don't have the source distribution, then you can either grab the
! whole thing from:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current
- --- 44,56 ----
Some of the instructions here will also refer to auxiliary utilities
! in the /usr/share/FAQ directory and below. If you do not have this
! directory, or if it does not contain the file that you want, you are
! probably using a version of FreeBSD prior to 2.0.5R. In this case,
! install the FreeBSD sources and look in /usr/src/share/FAQ (instead of
! /usr/share/FAQ). CDROM purchasers and net folks who've grabbed the
! FreeBSD 2.0 `srcdist' will have these files. If you don't have the
! source distribution, then you can either grab the whole thing from:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current
***************
*** 78,83 ****
- --- 85,115 ----
Sync PPP
Improved SCSI support
+ 0.1.1: What do I need to run FreeBSD?
+
+ See section 2, "Hardware compatibility", of this FAQ.
+
+ 0.1.2: Where can I get FreeBSD?
+
+ The distribution is available via anonymous ftp from:
+
+ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/
+
+ For the current release, 2.0.5R, look in:
+
+ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/
+
+ FreeBSD is also available via CDROM, from the following place(s):
+
+ Walnut Creek CDROM
+ 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D-386
+ Concord, CA 94520 USA
+ Orders: (800)-786-9907
+ Questions: (510)-674-0783
+ FAX: (510)-674-0821
+ email: orders@cdrom.com
+ WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
+
0.2: What are the FreeBSD mailing lists, and how can I get on them?
***************
*** 123,132 ****
- --- 155,272 ----
(probably only for a short time longer).
+ 0.4: Books on FreeBSD
+
+ There currently aren't any books written specifically for FreeBSD, although
+ some people are supposedly working on some.
+
+ However, as FreeBSD 2.0 is based upon Berkeley 4.4BSD-Lite, most of the
+ 4.4BSD manuals are applicable to FreeBSD 2.0. O'Reilly and Associates
+ publishes these manuals:
+
+ 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual
+ By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
+ 1st Edition June 1994, 804 pages
+ ISBN: 1-56592-080-5
+
+ 4.4BSD User's Reference Manual
+ By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
+ 1st Edition June 1994, 905 pages
+ ISBN: 1-56592-075-9
+
+ 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents
+ By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
+ 1st Edition July 1994, 712 pages
+ ISBN: 1-56592-076-7
+
+ 4.4BSD Programmer's Reference Manual
+ By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
+ 1st Edition June 1994, 886 pages
+ ISBN: 1-56592-078-3
+
+ 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents
+ By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
+ 1st Edition July 1994, 596 pages
+ ISBN: 1-56592-079-1
+
+ A description of these can be found via WWW as:
+
+ http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/category/bsd.html
+
+ A good book on system administration is:
+
+ Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, & Trent R. Hein,
+ "Unix System Administraion Handbook", Prentice-Hall, 1995,
+ ISBN: 0-13-151051-7
+ [ Note: make sure you get the second edition, with a red cover,
+ instead of the first edition. ]
+
+ This book covers the basics, as well as TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, SLIP/PPP,
+ sendmail, INN/NNTP, printing, etc.. It's expensive (~US$45-$55), but worth
+ it. It also includes a CDROM with the sources for various tools; most of
+ these, however, are also on the FreeBSD 2.0.5R CDROM (and the FreeBSD CDROM
+ often has newer versions).
+
+
+ 0.5: Other sources of information.
+
+ One good source of additional information is the "[comp.unix.bsd] NetBSD,
+ FreeBSD, and 386BSD (0.1) FAQ". Much of the information is relevant to
+ FreeBSD, and this FAQ is posted around twice a month to the following
+ newsgroups:
+
+ comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
+ comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
+ comp.answers
+ news.answers
+
+ (<X?X> is this FAQ still being maintained/posted???)
+
+ If you have WWW access, the FreeBSD home page is at:
+
+ http://www.freebsd.org/
+
+ A FreeBSD "handbook" is being created, and can be found as:
+
+ http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook/
+
+ Note that this is a work in progress, and so parts may be incomplete.
+
1 Installation
--------------
+ 1.0: How do I install FreeBSD?
+
+ [ IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are installing 2.0.5R from tape, see the question
+ titled, "Help! I can't install from tape! The install fails with a
+ `record too big' error!" ]
+
+ Installation instructions can be found as:
+
+ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/INSTALL
+
+ Release notes are also available as:
+
+ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/RELNOTES
+
+ On the CDROM, the following files are in the top-most directory:
+
+ INSTALL -- Installation instructions
+ README.TXT -- Basic README file
+ RELNOTES -- Release notes
+
+
+ 1.0.1: Help! I can't install from tape! The install fails with a
+ "record too big" error!
+
+ If you are installing 2.0.5R from tape, you must create the tape using a tar
+ blocksize of 10 (5120 bytes). The default tar blocksize is 20 (10240
+ bytes), and tapes created using this default size cannot be used to install
+ 2.0.5R; with these tapes, you will get an error that complains about the
+ record size being too big.
+
+
1.1: I want to install FreeBSD onto a SCSI disk that has more than
1024 cylinders. How do I do it?
***************
*** 179,184 ****
- --- 319,334 ----
No. FreeBSD 2.0 comes with bounce buffers which allows your bus
mastering controller access to greater than 16MB.
+ 1.5.1: My network card keeps getting errors like, "ed1: timeout". What's
+ going on?
+
+ This is usually caused by an interrupt conflict (e.g., two boards using
+ the same IRQ). FreeBSD prior to 2.0.5R <X?X> used to be tolerant of
+ this, and the network driver would still function in the presence of IRQ
+ conflicts. However, with 2.0.5R <X?X> and later, IRQ conflicts are no
+ longer tolerated. See the file, "<X?X>", for more details.
+
+
1.6: Do I need to install the complete sources?
In general, no. However, we would strongly recommend that you
***************
*** 565,570 ****
- --- 715,867 ----
5 Miscellaneous Questions
----------------
+
+
+ 5.0.1: Hey! Chmod doesn't change the file permissions of symlinked files!
+ What's going on?
+
+ You have to use either "-H" or "-L" together with the "-R" option to make
+ this work. See the chmod(1) and symlink(7) man pages for more info.
+
+ WARNING: the "-R" option does a *RECURSIVE* chmod. Be careful about
+ specifying directories or symlinks to directories to chmod. If you want to
+ change the permissions of a directory referenced by a symlink, use chmod(1)
+ without any options and follow the symlink with a trailing slash ("/"). For
+ example, if "foo" is a symlink to directory "bar", and you want to change
+ the permissions of "foo" (actually "bar"), you would do something like:
+
+ chmod 555 foo/
+
+ With the trailing slash, chmod will follow the symlink, "foo", to change the
+ permissions of the directory, "bar".
+
+
+ 5.0.2: How do I mount a CDROM? I've tried using mount(8), but it keeps on
+ giving me an error like, "/dev/cd0a on /mnt: Incorrect super block."
+
+ You have to tell mount(8) the type of the device that you want to mount. By
+ default, mount(8) will assume the filesystem is of type "ufs". You want to
+ mount a CDROM filesystem, and you do this by specifying the "-t cd9660"
+ option to mount(8). This does, of course, assume that the CDROM contains an
+ ISO 9660 filesystem, which is what most CDROMs have. As of 2.0.5R, FreeBSD
+ also understands the Rock Ridge (long filename) extensions.
+
+ As an example, if you want to mount the CDROM device, "/dev/cd0c", under
+ /mnt, you would execute:
+
+ mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt
+
+ Note that your device name ("/dev/cd0c" in this example) could be different,
+ depending on the CDROM interface. Note that the "-t cd9660" option just
+ causes the "mount_cd9660" command to be executed, and so the above example
+ could be shortened to:
+
+ mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt
+
+
+ 5.0.3: When I try to mount a CDROM, I get a "Device not configured" error.
+ What's going on?
+
+ This generally means that there is no CDROM in the CDROM drive. Feed the
+ drive something.
+
+
+ 5.0.4: My programs occasionally die with "Signal 11" errors. What's
+ going on?
+
+ This can be caused by bad hardware (memory, motherboard, etc.). Try running
+ a memory-testing program on your PC. Note that, even though every memory
+ testing program you try will report your memory as being fine, it's possible
+ for slightly marginal memory to pass all memory tests, yet fail under
+ operating conditions (such as during busmastering DMA from a SCSI
+ controller like the Adaptec 1542).
+
+
+ 5.0.5: Help, some of my X Window menus and dialog boxes don't work right! I
+ can't select them.
+
+ Try turning off the Num Lock key.
+
+
+ 5.0.6: How do I access the virtual consoles?
+
+ If the console is not currently displaying X Windows, just press Alt-F1 to
+ Alt-F12. NOTE: the default FreeBSD installation has only three (3) virtual
+ consoles enabled, and so only Alt-F1, Alt-F2, and Alt-F3 will work to switch
+ between three virtual consoles. If you want to increase this number, see
+ the next question.
+
+ If the console is currently displaying X Windows, you can use Ctrl-Alt-F1,
+ etc. to switch to a virtual console. Note, however, that once you've
+ switched away from X Windows to a virtual terminal, you use only the Alt-
+ function key to switch to another virtual terminal or back to X Windows.
+ You do not also press the Ctrl key; the Ctrl-Alt-function key combination is
+ used only when switching from X Windows to a virtual terminal.
+
+
+ 5.0.7: How do I increase the number of virtual consoles?
+
+ Edit /etc/ttys and add entries for "ttyv4" to "ttyvc" after the comment on
+ "Virtual terminals" (delete the leading whitespace in the following
+ example):
+
+ # Edit the existing entry for ttyv3 in /etc/ttys and change
+ # "off" to "on".
+ ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyv8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+
+ Use as many or as few as you want. The more virtual terminals you have, the
+ more resources that are used; this can be important if you have 8MB RAM or
+ less. You may also want to change the "secure" to "insecure".
+
+ IMPORTANT NOTE: if you want to run X Windows, you *MUST* leave a virtual
+ terminal unused (or turned off). For example, if you want to attach a
+ virtual terminal to all of your twelve Alt-function keys, you can only
+ attach virtual terminals to eleven of them. The last must be left unused,
+ because X Windows will use it, and you will use the last Alt-function key to
+ switch back to X Windows (after you have switched from X Windows to a
+ virtual console via a Ctrl-Alt-function key). The easiest way to do this is
+ to disable a console by turning it off. For example, if you have a keyboard
+ with twelve function keys, you would change settings for virtual terminal 12
+ from:
+
+ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+
+ to:
+
+ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
+
+ If your keyboard has only ten function keys, you would end up with:
+
+ ttyv9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
+ ttyva "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
+ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure
+
+ (You could also just delete these lines.)
+
+ Once you have edited /etc/ttys, the next step is to make sure that you have
+ enough virtual terminal devices. The easiest way to do this is:
+
+ cd /dev
+ ./MAKEDEV vty12 # For 12 devices
+
+ Next, the easiest (and cleanest) way to activate the virtual consoles is to
+ reboot. However, if you really don't want to reboot, you can just shut down
+ X Windows and execute (as root):
+
+ kill -HUP 1
+
+ It's imperative that you completely shut down X Windows if it is running,
+ before running this command. If you don't, your system will probably appear
+ to hang/lock up after executing the kill command.
+
5.1: I've heard of something called FreeBSD-current. How do I run it, and
where can I get more information?
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