From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 15:20:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA06842 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 15:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06727 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 15:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ab09827; 30 May 96 23:19 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa06607; 30 May 96 23:04 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA10963; Thu, 30 May 1996 19:54:55 GMT Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 19:54:55 GMT Message-Id: <199605301954.TAA10963@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: smilepak@vividnet.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <2FCAB1F6.4C22@vividnet.com> (smilepak@vividnet.com) Subject: Re: Question regarding FREEBSD and Modem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a question. Well, i currently have Windows 95 in my computer at the > moment. I was thinking of buying a copy of freeBSD and installing it into my > computer on a second hard drive. Is there a way to have multi boot up so i > won't have to format all the valuable data i got on my computer right now to > install freeBSD? Yes, you can install something like osbs to do this (it's in the tools directory). > second question is that i currently have an internet provider which i got PPP > + Shell connection to it. I was thinking of getting freeBSD install, and use > ftp, telnet, etc from my computer without login my account at the provider. > Is there a way to use a 28.8k modem to connect to my provider under freeBSD? > Then i can just use the compiler and editor and all the function as normal on > my computer, but if i want to telnet or ftp or read mail or netnews etc, it > will then go through my internet account (shell) to use it? Is that possible? No problem. This is fairly straightforward to set up using user PPP - look at Section 12.1 of http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ for an explanation of how to do this. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk