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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:55:25 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        larry_nilsen <larry_nilsen@eee.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ppp mounting cdrom
Message-ID:  <19981020185525.C1141@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <362C2AB6.8852BAAE@eee.org>
References:  <362C2AB6.8852BAAE@eee.org>

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larry_nilsen wrote:

> hi could you explain to me how to simply configure this FREEBSD 2.2.7
> system to hookup on to my internet service provider. like i do on my
> other partition that has win95?

Well, not exactly like win95, since FreeBSD won't crash on you every
five minutes, but you can certainly still connect to your ISP.

> Ive read the manpages on ppp but i just aint gett- ing it.Maybe you
> can enlighten me on this adventure.I would really like to use FREEBSD
> to surf the internet.

Have you looked at /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample and friends? I found them
fairly easy to understand, just plug in appropriate values for phone
numbers, login names, etc.

> Last question is there a easy way to mount my cdrom /dev/wcd0/ and
> read what i have on the disk.I think Im making this all harder than
> it really is.But then again i usually do things like that.

Put a line like this in /etc/fstab:

/dev/wcd0c	/cdrom		cd9660	ro,noauto		0	0

Then just type `mount /cdrom' as root to mount it onto /cdrom.

-- 
Ben Smithurst                                          ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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