From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 20:39:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA01642 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (smmcdialin.ultra.net.au [203.56.101.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA01636 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:39:16 -0700 (PDT) From: bsd@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au Received: from staff2.smmc.qld.edu.au (staff2.smmc.qld.edu.au [203.56.180.49]) by smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01108; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:24:11 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709100224.MAA01108@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Khelbin Sunvold Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:54:09 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: BSD newbie installer...almost ready Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks for the Khelbin, It is useful. In fact the specs are... pentium 120 with a unix partition of around 450 Mb It has a 1.1 Gb IDE + CD 8*(mitsumi) IDE. 2 serial ports and a Kingston 16 bit (NDis2) net card. 2 FDloppy drives and a SB16 creative compliant sound card. It also has win 95 loaded on another partition around 550 Mb. I have the BSD bootmanager deployed and it seems to work well. I want the machine to be a proxy server (I'll use squid I guess) for my LAN of around 20 windows machines. (thats irrelevant though) It doesn't need lots of web server space although I'll probably have Roxen or Apache on it. I guess I just need it to be a gateway machine so it can dial in to my existing server (my ISP set up for me but they charge too much & I feel powerless in my own network!...hence my FreeBSD investigations) This is supposed to allow the 20 web & mail & irc etc clients to route out through to my main ISP gateway machine. I have a class C block of IP addresses. By the" system file thing" I have read that in order to make major changes to FreeBSD setup e.g. modems etc... I need the system files etc...Is it to do with a kernel re-build (whatever a kernel is...looks a bit like a windows 95 registry?) So I guess I need to know if I need to setup the full system files in the install program. Thanks for your ears again... I very much appreciate your help. Keith Spencer BSD newbie & IT coordinator @ St Margaret Marys College in Townsville Australia