From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 22 7:38:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896D437B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:38:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from grunt26.ihug.com.au (grunt26.ihug.com.au [203.109.249.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AEE43FA3 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:38:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@jmv.com.au) Received: from p50-max18.syd.ihug.com.au (localhost) [203.173.153.50] by grunt26.ihug.com.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wl5C-0002Zj-00; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:38:54 +1100 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:33:04 +1100 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: John Vender To: "Sukhbinder Singh" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <92FA50EC-5C7B-11D7-AF83-00039369D83A@jmv.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 12:48 AM, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > Dear Sir, > =A0 > =A0=A0 I am trying to install FreeBSD into my personal computer. I am = using=20 > the FTP installation method using the standard installation. When I = try=20 > to start the FTP installation I get message such as :- Warning: no=20 > /dev/tun0 device. PPP will not work !.=A0Unable to start PPP. This=20 > installation cannot be=A0used. > =A0 > Can you please help me to resolve this problem. > =A0 > Thanks, are you trying to do the ftp install using a modem connection and if so,=20= what type of modem do you have? If you have a winmodem you maybe able to=20= get it working with FreeBSD once you have FreeBSD installed but you=20 cannot install using it, see = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/hardware.html#SUPPORT= -WINMODEM I admit I am guessing at the cause of your problem with the installation=20= and if the above is not relevant hopefully someone more expert than I am=20= will follow up pointing this out and a way to work out the cause of the=20= problem you are having. Please note that mail sent to this list should be sent as plain text,=20 not as html. I have never used hotmail but I believe you can change the=20= settings so that the e-mails you send are not sent as html. Cheers...John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message