From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 4 13:43:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16276 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 4 May 1997 13:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme53.sunshine.net [204.191.205.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16271; Sun, 4 May 1997 13:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04702; Sun, 4 May 1997 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 13:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: Roger Browne cc: FreeBSD-questions , FreeBSD-Doc Subject: Re: installing via ftp In-Reply-To: <336CD9DA.BF5@kendaco.telebyte.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 May 1997, Roger Browne wrote: > Just a quick note :) > > The most confusing thing for me so far is running the ppp term program! > > - I got the phone number, user name and password entered ok > - on advice from a third party I disabled lqr > - type dial and get dial ok! login ok! packet mode on > (approximately) > - and then it sits - could be i'm just not patient enough but it will > stay that way over 5 minutes You are able to tell if you have made connection if `ppp ON' Changes to `PPP ON' This to is in the handbook. > - tried for the heck of it to alt-F1 back and see if maybe I AM > hooked up - but i get a DNS lookup failure - so I presume I am not > connected. > If I assume correctly, you are dealing with an ISP that uses `Dynamic PPP' My best luck in this was to assign, in the setup window, IP Address [0.0.0.0] and Gateway [0.0.0.0] and then when the dial and login was complete the ISP machine (I assume) has a free riegn on assigning the addresses it wants to. This is my own experience and would not in anyway say it is suggested by FreeBSD. > My vote :) more docs on that please :) > > I'm planning to just ftp the bin and man dirs for now and try from dos > partition. You may want to consider the disk install if these are the only 'distributions' you are going to install in the beginning. I know first hand that 2.2.1-RELEASE/bin requires 15 - 1.44MB's Instructions for this is in INSTALL.TXT at the top of 2.2.1-RELEASE _______________________________________ |\ /| If I hadn't asked | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | the questions I asked, | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | I wouldn't be answering | /^\_________________________/^\ | the questions I'm answering. | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~