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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!uunet!in2.uu.net!pipeline!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!interramp.com!usenet From: joe minnich <jminnich@interramp.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD over a PPP link. Date: 23 Sep 1995 20:38:08 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Lines: 29 Message-ID: <441r7g$enn@usenet1.interramp.com> References: <4413mj$vid@tetsuo.communique.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip37.wilmington.de.interramp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: mango@tetsuo.communique.net X-URL: news://38.8.46.2/4413mj$vid@tetsuo.communique.net mango@tetsuo.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) wrote: >Hello there... > >I was trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 over a ppp link... >What happens is that after installing about 1% the line would disconnect. >I would redial (from shell 4, as shell 3: ppp would not respond) and the >transfer would continue. It would install another 2% of the package and >the modem would hang up once more (etc, etc). > >I know I have no problems with the phone line/modem, and I know I can >install FreeBSD on that machine, as I did it over Ethernet the previous >week. (please do not say: if you did it over Ethernet, why do you want >to do it again over ppp). > >Why: some of my customers would like to run FreeBSD in theyr UNIX boxes, >and I am trying to give them a cheaper option than having to hire me to >do it. I installed my freebsd over a v.34 using freebsd ppp provided with boot flex (sysinstall). I had no problems. It worked like magic. -- Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------- Joe Minnich jminnich@interramp.com System Administrator 302-791-8662 Electronic Payment Services