From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 26 04:53:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D1A267F for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E29231778 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-149-155.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.149.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E5233CB4A; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:53:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s0Q4rEXq004410; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:53:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:53:14 +0100 From: Polytropon To: M V Subject: Re: Message-Id: <20140126055314.8dc12ca0.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1390710325.11907.75367605.1B8FD246@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1390623216.13279.75096525.21DA4B31@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20140125052554.d1dd907a.freebsd@edvax.de> <1390710325.11907.75367605.1B8FD246@webmail.messagingengine.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:53:48 -0000 *** re-including the list, hope that's okay *** On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:25:25 -0800, M V wrote: > well thanks for clearing things up for me i did not know i was > downloading a server ISO You are wrong. FreeBSD is not a "server OS" with the meaning that it is for _server only_. As I said, it's a multi-purpose OS, and this is reflected by how the installation media works. They can be used to install on a server, but the same (!) media, for example the CD #1, will install a graphical workstation. For example, the laptops and PCs I'm running at home have been installed using that particular CD #1. By looking at my desktop (on screen) the initial text mode operations to install the OS can't be seen anymore. :-) > what is confusing to me is that it asked if i > wanted to run from live cd i assumed it would boot into graphics ?? No, the live system CD does not include X. It's primarily intended for performing system repair, recovery preparation or other kind of maintenance operations. But there are FreeBSD-derived systems that do. A famous example is FreeSBIE, but I think it isn't being maintained actively anymore. It is a live CD that boots into a GUI desktop environ- ment. http://www.freesbie.org/ The latest version is based on FreeBSD 6, which isn't actively supported anymore. Still it will boot fine on your Dell laptop. Even FreeSBIE 1.1 (using FreeBSD 5) will. I have tried it. :-) > any > way i am downloading the pcbsd now i hope that i will be able to create > a dial up connection using this distro That should work without problems. I've been using dial-up Internet via PPP many years ago. > for the life of me i have never > been able to get clear commands on how to enable the modem and configure > connection i have gotten better with linux commands but for some reason > i can never get clear command info on how to create a dial up connection You should have a look at the ppp utility. PC-BSD includes a "dialing manager" that lets you control the modem and manage connections. Also see the relevant chapter in The FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html You can choose to automatically have the system dial, or dial manually if you prefer to have more control over your connection time and manner. PPPoE is also supported and works very nicely. Connections can be started right with the system startup. I've also been using that way to get online some years ago. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...