Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 13:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: Roger Browne <rbrowne@kendaco.telebyte.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-Doc <FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: installing via ftp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970504125956.4512D-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <336CD9DA.BF5@kendaco.telebyte.com>
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On Sun, 4 May 1997, Roger Browne wrote:
> Just a quick note :)
>
> The most confusing thing for me so far is running the ppp term program!
>
> - I got the phone number, user name and password entered ok
> - on advice from a third party I disabled lqr
> - type dial and get dial ok! login ok! packet mode on
> (approximately)
> - and then it sits - could be i'm just not patient enough but it will
> stay that way over 5 minutes
You are able to tell if you have made connection if `ppp ON' Changes to
`PPP ON'
This to is in the handbook.
> - tried for the heck of it to alt-F1 back and see if maybe I AM
> hooked up - but i get a DNS lookup failure - so I presume I am not
> connected.
>
If I assume correctly, you are dealing with an ISP that uses `Dynamic PPP'
My best luck in this was to assign, in the setup window, IP Address
[0.0.0.0] and Gateway [0.0.0.0] and then when the dial and login was
complete the ISP machine (I assume) has a free riegn on assigning the
addresses it wants to.
This is my own experience and would not in anyway say it is suggested by
FreeBSD.
> My vote :) more docs on that please :)
>
> I'm planning to just ftp the bin and man dirs for now and try from dos
> partition.
You may want to consider the disk install if these are the only
'distributions' you are going to install in the beginning. I know first
hand that 2.2.1-RELEASE/bin requires 15 - 1.44MB's
Instructions for this is in INSTALL.TXT at the top of 2.2.1-RELEASE
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