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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The morning after Date: 31 Aug 1995 23:54:21 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 56 Message-ID: <425i3d$j2l@reason.cdrom.com> References: <DE5w4G.4zC@news.iceonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: brianm@iceonline.com X-URL: news:DE5w4G.4zC@news.iceonline.com brianm@iceonline.com (Brian McGhee) wrote: >Ok, I finally have FreeBSD installed the way I want it. It was >actually fairly straight forward. Glad to hear it! > - How do I mound my floppy drives? DOS floppy? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /someplace > - How do I tell FreeBSD that I have a printer attached to LPT1? `man printcap' > - How do I let it know that my modem is on COM 3 and uses IRQ 11? Boot with -c or build your own kernel. See section 6 of the FAQ in /usr/share/FAQ/Text/FreeBSD.FAQ. In fact, you might want to peruse the entire document. > - How do I stop it from checking a nonexistant server for mail? Excuse me? > - How do I hook up a modem program to run in the background so that > other people can dial up and access my system? `man ttys' > - Is there a BBS ported to FreeBSD? If not, any suggestions on > packages for which source code is freely available? The Major BBS runs under FreeBSD. Contact them for details. > - How do I add more than the three sessions ALT-F! -> F3. `man ttys' - in particular, see /etc/ttys and how to modify it. > - How do I modify my kernel so that it is not constantly looking for > pieces of hardware that I do not have? See previous suggestion re: serial ports and IRQs. > - vi sucks -- is there a better editor out there? /usr/ports/editors/pick-pretty-much-any-editor-you-like > - how do I print out all the man pages? Uh. Are you sure you really want to do that? > - how do I put a user in a group so he can 'su' the root? `man su' then `vi /etc/group' based on the information you find there. >While specific answers would be great, I would also like some general >guidelines about configuring my system and where to look for other >help. Without question, buy the 4.4 BSD documentation set from O'Reilly & Associates. The ISBN number is given in the README on the boot floppy. Jordan