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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!svcs1!slix From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: how to set 386bsd 0.1 up with FTPbsd Keywords: install,ftp,hostname,newuser,help Message-ID: <696@svcs1.UUCP> Date: 1 Sep 92 06:20:46 GMT Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 47 Hi BSDers, Well, first of all, I got the bindist of 0.1 about a month ago and finally I decided "what the hell, go for it" :) and installed it on my Packard Bell 386sx machine. (I have 130 meg IDE + 4 megs ram, no math chip.) I am quite well experienced with things DOS (I've been running it for a long time) but not with things UNIX. I've used it in various flavors only for a short time. I'm somewhat familiar with the 'standard' utilities but not as much with sysadm stuff as I should be. So, I have a couple of questions. These might be FAQs but I haven't yet been able to get the FAQ yet. 1) After it extracted all the bindist cpio files, it asked me to name the computer. I typed in "Belvedere" :) but it also seemed to suggest putting in a numeric domain (e.g. 121.43.22.11 or whatever). I've seen these domains before (I realize they have to do with FTP), but I haven't the *foggiest* idea how to come up with a numeric domain for this installation. I would assume I can't just type in a random one - it might be already used by an FTP site or other unix system. 2) I read the INSTALL.NOTES file on how to set up for ftping the other distributions (src,etc) as well as any other files I might need. There seemed to be some unclear stuff in there with respect to how I go about doing this. I tried tip. The first time, I got what some others have gotten - a connected message and then can't suspend (have to reboot) after doing 'tip com2' or 'tip /dev/com2'. Now, all I get is an 'unknown hostname' message. I am well cognizant about bbsing, mail (such as it is) and getting files from BBSes and even ftpmail from a unix host I've been calling over the past month to read this and other newsgroups. However, I can't seem to find how to set things up in bsd to be able to do much of this yet. 3) Sometime down the road I am going to want to get uucp up and running so that I can get and read news (and use mail) from 386bsd, and not have to go through a 'bbs' (i.e., call to read news online). It looks like a lot of this stuff is related somehow. I need some hand-holding I suppose, and some specifics. For example, if files are available on agate. berkeley.edu, what do I need to do to set my machine up to connect to them via ftp? If I have a numeric domain address, can I just do 'ftp 121.21.320.2' for example, and get there?