From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 12:06:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07320 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07253 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:06:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18425; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:05:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Krügier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bugs in boot floppy In-Reply-To: <34CCC083.3356DA43@tht.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA07272 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Michael Krügier wrote: > Makers of the FreeBSD boot floppy-- this is for you! > > There seems to be an error in the boot disk - when using the ppp dialup > the ppp program gives an error when starting saying that it cannot > create /var/run/tun0.pid That's not a problem. > ignoring this error and dialing to my isp i connected only to find that > it could not lookup your ftp server. Problems I like to solve so I > downloaded the /bin directory from the distribution and installed it > from msdos... BAD MOVE the install errored out on the 16th floppy > because of checksum errors. Try running `add 0 0 HISADDR' after you finish dialing in and get the PPP> prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major