From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 12 21:56:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D42514BFA for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@rapidnet.com) Received: from rapidnet.com (pt9-23.rapidnet.com [208.142.248.182]) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA69230 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:54:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3712DCBF.6056D710@rapidnet.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:57:19 -0700 From: v X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Hello Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I am a newbie and I was trying to install from ftp. It didn't work so I wrote a newsgroup and posted a question. My computer would lock up during the install when I type term at the ppp prompt. The response back from the newsgroup was that my modem was possibly a pnp modem and these don't work. I didn't see any references about this in the handbook, but then again I didn't read the hardware compatibility list well either. Anyways, my suggestion is to make a reference or a link to a compatible modems for ftp transfers. Also, for newbies such as myself, I didn't know that I needed to ftp files in binary. I think if these tips were more readily availble I could have FreeBSD installed on my system now. Please don't be offended. I think you guys do a great job and I'm trying to learn more about what you do. I just have difficulties with installing FreeBSD. Perhaps I missed what I suggested, if so please let me know where I can read this. Thank You, Adam VandeMore To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message