From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 13:29:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29480 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29468 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zVg0D-0000Kw-00; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:55:25 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:55:25 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: larry_nilsen Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ppp mounting cdrom Message-ID: <19981020185525.C1141@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <362C2AB6.8852BAAE@eee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <362C2AB6.8852BAAE@eee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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