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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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