From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 10:54:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12983 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:54:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pchb1f.gallaudet.edu (pchb1f.gallaudet.edu [134.231.8.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12882 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu) Received: from localhost (flatline@localhost) by pchb1f.gallaudet.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA00803 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:50:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:50:53 -0500 (EST) From: Uncle Flatline To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 7 questions/problems from a former Linux, new FreeBSD user Message-ID: Organization: The Sprawl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" [------------------<80-column fixed-width text follows>------------------] Hi, I apologize for the length of the message, but this is a log of problems that I've been having, and now that I'm finally able to send mail out, I'm just sending the entire list of problems. Are there any souls out there kind enough to help a novice who's looked at the FAQ and Handbook, but still not understanding? (I'm coming from an intermediate Linux user/admin background, so you shouldn't have to handhold too much, I hope.) Here's seven questions, bugs, gripes, or misunderstandings that I'm having. 1) A few days ago, (Saturday, Jan 31, 1998) I followed the directions on the FreeBSD home page which fetched the 2.2.5-RELEASE boot disk. This loaded an out-of-date ports collection. Should this page be changed? (The FAQ mentions RELEASE, CURRENT, and STABLE, but only discusses CURRENT and STABLE.) 2) Dual boot doesn't detect Win95. Worked fine with Linux. Layout: Primary IDE Master: 1081 MB hard disk, FreeBSD, BootEasy (formerly Slackware Linux, LILO) Primary IDE Slave: Empty Secondary IDE Master: 2441 MB hard disk, Win95 Secondary IDE Slave: CD-ROM At least that's what I THOUGHT it was. After fiddling a bit, I am now able to mount the msdos partitions, though unlike Linux, I didn't see anything about VFAT long filename support. Here's my current fstab: _______________________________________________________________________________ # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd2s1 /DOS/C msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd2s2 /DOS/D msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wcd0c /CDROM cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 ______________________________________________________________________________ I confess to some confusion over how I should set the geometry. (When telling FreeBSD install to use the entire disk with the geometry that was specified in the BIOS, (2097/16/63) it appeared to actually use the whole disk. (This geometry also appeared in the early boot messages during the install -- before I ever set any geometry.) When leaving the geometry set to FreeBSD's best guess which is what Linux and pfdisk liked, (524/64/63) it appeared to only use part of the disk. Full specs on the 1081 MB disk I'm using can be found at: ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsupport/st31081a.txt or http://www.seagate.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/at/st31081.txt I didn't screw with the other disk at all, since it has a fully functional Win95 sitting on it, and I saw no need for FreeBSD to break something that was working. 3) When connecting via a multiplexer (DECserver/Vista) over a phone line the username is accepted, but the password seems to ignore the carriage return. The system waits forever for the password to be entered. (It seems that typing (^J) directly gets around this problem. But that's ugly!) 4) When telnetting to my Linux host, the system correctly translates IP name to IP numeric address, tells me it's connected, and then immediately says "Connection closed by foreign host". Telnetting from FreeBSD to other machines is fine, as is telnetting to the Linux machine from anything other than the FreeBSD machine. (Is this some authentication thing that I turned on during the install? Can I correct things without reinstalling?) 5) When telnetting anywhere, it never seems to get the terminal emulation right, though I thought I had forced it to do that. Related issue: The kernel LINT config file, and the handbook say "Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD" with regards to vt220 emulation. I take it PCVT_FREEBSD is an options line that I should include? (Also, where can I get an idea what the standard SCO console is like? Is it worse? Better? Merely different? Can I have both vt0 and sc0?) P.S. I recompiled with sc0 off and vt0 on, but am having a whole different set of emulation problems. (/stand/sysinstall now goes nuts sending the ANSI escape sequences to the screen and making a mess. Other programs exhibit similar behavior.) 6) Recompilation of kernel lost the JAZ drive (and never got me the audio (SB) support.) How important is the order of the lines in the kernel config file? I tried to arrange mine in what I thought was a logical order: generic options cpu stuff controller drive drive controller/drive options controller drive drive controller/drive options ... Recompiling with the order that LINT uses got the JAZ drive back, but I'm still stuck with no sound. P'n'P problem??? I don't want to turn it off if I can avoid it. 7) STUPID IDEA: Why does chsh do so much more than it should and badly? It should just change the shell, not bring up an editor. I decided to change the sell of my root account. It not only displayed the shell, but a password line. I hadn't set my password yet at that point, so I attempted to set it from the chsh command. It proceeded to store the UNENCRYPTED password in master.passwd (and god knows where else). Please HELP! Thanks! -- Kevin Cole | E-mail: flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu Gallaudet Research Institute | WWW: http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/ Hall Memorial Bldg S-419 | Voice: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746