Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 21:01:33 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Hearns <gyrfalc@io.org> To: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: pgarigue@io.org Subject: Getting started, once the system is running. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950310205522.13730A-100000@nudge.io.org>
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I have a copy of FreeBSD 2.0 running on my second Hard drive. I enjoy toying with it, but I have a problem: I would like to get this sucker to work, so I can use my modem. Right now, it boots, I can use it to write programs, I can explore the UNIX system and learn a lot about UNIX. But I can't go anywhere with it. 1) How do I get my modem to work? The boot sequence recognizes that there is a serial IO device on COM2 at the right address, why can't I access it? 2) Why, when I boot the system, do I keep getting errors related to a network, when I'm using a standalone machine? 3) Am I going to have to write my own terminal program, to get a SL/IP connection going? 4) I feel as if I have just fallen into an ocean, but don't know how to swim... Everything I look at seems to be 'hooked into' everything else. Is there a starting point to unravel this tangled web of interconnected relationships? I have looked in the /etc/rc file, which indicates that there is some information in the /etc/networks file, which refers to ... Argh! 5) I understand about the man pages. Why, for example, is there a man page for "]", but the command: "man ]" produces a vehement denial that such a page exists? 6) How do I access my floppy drives? There seems to be tons of devices in the /dev directory which seem to refer to my floppy drive, why can't I change to it and read a floppy disk? Bruce G. Hearns | _\ _-_-_-_--/^\__/(\__/^\--_-_-_-_- /_ gyrfalc@io.org | / / / ^--^-- :.^) --^--^ \ \ \ "It's thought | |:/^^^\:| that counts." | C-A-R-P-E--(-)---(-)---D-I-E-M
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