Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 14:11:51 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: gyrfalc@io.org (Bruce Hearns) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, pgarigue@io.org Subject: Re: Getting started, once the system is running. Message-ID: <199503111312.OAA14009@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950310205522.13730A-100000@nudge.io.org> from "Bruce Hearns" at Mar 10, 95 09:01:33 pm
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> 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? Add a line to the file /etc/remote: modem2:dv=/dev/cua01:br#57600:pa=none Add a line or uncomment the line in /etc/rc.serial: modem 1 Reboot, and then try a "tip modem2" and see if you see the lights on the modem, if it is an external, and if the modem responds to "ati" commands. You may need to use a different baud rate above instead of the 57600. Read the manual pages for "tip" "remote" and "sio" for some of the important things :-). > 2) Why, when I boot the system, do I keep getting errors > related to a network, when I'm using a standalone machine? Difficult to answer whats wrong here. Look at the beginning of /etc/netstart and change the lines to not start up the network daemons. > 3) Am I going to have to write my own terminal program, to get > a SL/IP connection going? No, you can use either tip or kermit or seyon with x-windows to set up the SL/IP connection. Also chat and slattach are another possibility. > 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? You mean the "[" man page :-). Difficult to explain. You are typing that in a shell and the "[' is already special to the shell, so you need to escape it with a "\[", but the man command also calls somewhere internally a shell, so you need to type really a "man \\[" to get the man page :-). > 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? What is on the floppy, if you want to read a DOS floppy, you need to get the mtools utilities or use the mount -t msdos command to read it. For mtools, like the mdir command, you can use normally "mdir a:". To mount a DOS-floppy it is "mount -r -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt". Then you can do a "cd /mnt" and ls or cp or something like that, ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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