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From: brianm@iceonline.com (Brian McGhee)
Subject: The morning after
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:17:33 GMT
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Ok, I finally have FreeBSD installed the way I want it. It was
actually fairly straight forward.
So now what do I do? How do I configure the system?
I have had no experience with UNIX beyond the absolute minimum I
needed to work my way around some FTP sites.
Some immediate concerns that pop to mind:
- How do I mound my floppy drives?
- How do I tell FreeBSD that I have a printer attached to LPT1?
- How do I let it know that my modem is on COM 3 and uses IRQ 11?
- How do I stop it from checking a nonexistant server for mail?
- How do I hook up a modem program to run in the background so that
other people can dial up and access my system?
- Is there a BBS ported to FreeBSD? If not, any suggestions on
packages for which source code is freely available?
- How do I add more than the three sessions ALT-F! -> F3.
- How do I modify my kernel so that it is not constantly looking for
pieces of hardware that I do not have?
- vi sucks -- is there a better editor out there?
- how do I print out all the man pages?
- how do I put a user in a group so he can 'su' the root?
The system I am running it on is a 386DX-40, 8meg, 1.0 gig hd, mouse,
CD-ROM, 2 floppies, mouse, VGA monitor, dot matrix printer, and Sound
Blaster.
While specific answers would be great, I would also like some general
guidelines about configuring my system and where to look for other
help.
Thanks
P.S. I have already looked through the FAQ's on FreeBSD.org.