Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:33:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Cc: cg67cs@nosc.mil (Scott Long), jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA problems Message-ID: <199611282033.VAA16519@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961128092630.263fa9a4@trout.nosc.mil> from Scott Long at "Nov 28, 96 09:25:24 am"
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As Scott Long wrote:
(I hardly can state an opinion to everything here.)
> 3. The PPP install option has given me numerous headaches.
> ... First thing that is wrong is that sysinstall passes to
> the ppp program that I'm using the /dev/cuaa0 device when I had
> intentionally selected /dev/cuaa3.
I think it cannot easily passed on the command line in the current
version of `ppp', hence what you're seeing is probably that cuaa0 is
simply the default.
> 33.6Kbps. I can dial and establish a link easily with the Annex server.
> Dynamic IP address assignment works good, but it's just slow. The new
> server is bad, though.
Is it possible that they've got a problem with the T/TCP extensions?
I'm not sure, but i don't think sysinstall turns them off. (You can
turn them off easily in an installed system though, see
/etc/sysconfig.)
> 5. Related to doing a ppp install, the network form asks for "additional
> ifconfig options". What are these? Could there be a help option available
> in this form that gives some advice.
That's hard to do, since these options are very device-dependant.
Basically, everything you could imagine at the end of an ifconfig
line. If you RTFM (in an installed system), you'll find that this is
several pages of text.
The most important things there are probably the remote peer address
for a SLIP interface, and the various link0, link1, link2, -link0
etc. link-level flags for an individual interface (like -link0 for a
`zp' device to select the BNC connector, something that just springs
to mind).
> 6. This only gives me the option
> to select which dos partition (I have two), and never asks what directory on
> that partition to look into. Maybe I am missing something? Hopefully I
> just mis-read the install and readme files.
I think the installation docs mention the place. Wait...
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2.3 Before installing from a DOS partition:
To prepare for installation from an MS-DOS partition you should simply
copy the files from the distribution into a directory called
"FREEBSD". For example, to do a minimal installation of FreeBSD from
DOS using files copied from the CDROM, you might do something like
this:
C> MD C:\FREEBSD
C> XCOPY /S E:\DISTS\BIN C:\FREEBSD\BIN
Asssuming that `C:' was where you had free space and `E:' was where
your CD was mounted.
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I think it might be possible to put the actual location into the
`options' screen, instead of hard-coding it. That's something for
Jordan to think about...
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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