From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Nov 28 12:53:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA12767 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12762 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA14146; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:51:55 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA25001; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:51:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA16519; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:33:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611282033.VAA16519@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA problems To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:33:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: cg67cs@nosc.mil (Scott Long), jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961128092630.263fa9a4@trout.nosc.mil> from Scott Long at "Nov 28, 96 09:25:24 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... ---------------- 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. ---------------- 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)