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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Installing NetBSD 1.0 via SLIP
Date: 11 Feb 1995 21:13:44 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada
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I think we need to add a section describing how to set up a SLIP link
to FTP the bin NetBSD 1.0 distribution to the INSTALL file. I seem
unable to do so.
I managed to dig up the format of the remote file for tip (which is
included on the install disks) from my old 4.2BSD manual, but I can't
get tip to do anything but dump core. Using stty and cat I managed to
connect to my SLIP provider and get logged in. I then did an
slattach -1200 /dev/tty00
ifconfig sl0 204.174.31.53 204.174.16.4
route add 0.0.0.0 204.174.16.4
(yes it was a 1200 bps connection--don't even bother to ask why :-))
and tried to ping the host I was attached to. The modem TX light flashed
once per second, so the packet seemed to be going out, but I was
getting nothing back.
Any thoughts on this? I'd even settle just for thoughts on how to get
tip working; using cat as a terminal program is a bit awkward.
cjs
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