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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!news From: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@hilink.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing vie anon ftp with PPP on com3??? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:41:28 +1000 Organization: HiLink Communications Lines: 24 Message-ID: <316C9B88.167E@hilink.com.au> References: <316c0c89.10814393@news.olywa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: clyde.its.unimelb.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.0 alpha) To: Benjamin McGough <bmcgough@olywa.net> Benjamin McGough wrote: > > That pretty much sums it up. I'd like to use the anonymous > ftp installation method (a great idea, BTW) but my modem is on com3, > and the installation program uses only com2. Is there an easy > work-around for this, or should I just download the entire > installation of FreeBSD? At the boot prompt on the installation disk, enter -c as a boot flag. You then get the kernel config menu. Type 'ls' to list devices. To change com2 so it uses your com3 settings, do something like config> irq sio1 4 config> ioaddr sio1 0x2f8 config> dis sio2 config> quit The kernel should then probe for sio1 at the place where COM3 is usually pointed to. You should then be a happy chappy... Danny PS the irq and ioaddr are from memory. Check them against your real settings.