Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:52:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "GKN Chep SA (Pty) Ltd" <gknchep@iafrica.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Fay Glennie <GKN/HO/GLENF@iafrica.com> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970916004453.13496D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <01BCC281.645FC920@IT-INTERNET>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, GKN Chep SA (Pty) Ltd wrote: > Hello, > > Help Help Help please write shorter lines. I just hit 'Justify' so I can read it all but it makes it hard for others now, because of hte embedded stuff. > > We have changed one of our customer packages (similar to an > accounting package) from DOS to Unix FreeBSD. After many > attempts at installing we managed to get to the thing going. > Luckily, thanks to the internet, we managed to get the dialup comms >going. This allowed us the facility to dial into clients machines and >perform routine maintenance. One of my new problems is that a couple of >our customers have switchboards. I have tried to find the answer on the >net but have yet to find anything concrete. > > My only other option is >to get the client to dial-up an ISP and then notify me of the IP address. >Once connected I can access his machine. This is tedious and requires hi >input from the customer side as well as an additional ISP account per > switchboard client. why can't the client dial you directly? why use an ISP? are they a long way away? if they didn't have a switchboard what would you do? you don't say what you would PREFER to do.. > > The other major problem we have is that: > > To install the new version of our package we need to visit each of customers, load the new operating system and then the package. > > We would like to issue our field personnel with an external CD-Rom drive and allow them, via the parallel port, to load the entire package. The problem we are having is that there does not seem to be a driver to access the external drive. > > Can you advise me of the correct place to look for a solution (if it exists)? > > "Please" can you advise. > > Regards > > Dale > > > > We install our machines with 2 root partitions, then use the 'nextboot(8)' facility to select wich is booted. we can replace the entire inactive OS remotly, and then tell the machine to boot from it. (and fall back if it fails). alternatively there is info on the parallel port ZIP drive.. you might look at that as an alternative..
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