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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!netaxs.com!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.1.5: HELP w/sysinstall problems (Networking/Interfaces) etc Date: 9 Sep 1996 01:09:11 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <510ca7$hc7@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.mcs.com I'm a new FreeBSD user, though I've been subscribing to the cds. I recently got my 2.1.5 CD-ROM, and aside from some small installation glitches (sysinstall doesn't notice when a gzipped file is corrupt; I recopied mangled files from the live file system cd), managed to get a minimal (binaries+kernel sources) installation up and working. (AMD 486DX2/80, 32MB, AHA1542CF, SCSI Jaz drive & CD-ROM drive.) I've noted some other more serious problems, though. 1. Now that I've got things more or less working, I want to add PPP to the system. I remember seeing a setup screen in sysinstall's Configure/Networking/Interfaces menu, but now after the installation sysinstall doesn't let me into that menu, and doesn't tell me why. It just flashes the screen and stays put. There are also other items in this menu which won't toggle anymore (NFS server, for instance). If this is intentional behavior, why? Also, it looks really awful. 2. When sysinstall does detect an error, it switches the screen back to ttyv0, even if sysinstall is running on, say, ttyv1. Not a serious problem, but seriously annoying. 3. Using the Ports (Link to FreeBSD Ports Collection on CD) menu item from the Configuration menu has never worked for me. I change disks as asked but sysinstall can't find the second CD-ROM disc. If I try it again sysinstall claims it can't unmount /cdrom, where the first CD-ROM disc is again. Blech. Mounting and unmounting CD-ROMs manually works just fine. I hope it's not so persnickety when I try to install X in a few days. (I'm completely unfamiliar with it, coming from NEXTSTEP.) I will say that making a new kernel was mostly straightforward. And redefining the keyboard mapping was easy. Yum. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.