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From: harpo@javanet.com (John Szumowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: newbie needs help with booteasy, etc...
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 02:52:04 GMT
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i just installed bsd 2.1.5 (walnut creek cdrom) this afternoon. i can't say 
that i have much of a clue about unix, having tooled around with linux a 
little a while back.
i have a few questions: 1. booteasy works fine, but my bios partition (yeah, i 
have a compaq...) seems to be listed...at least that's what i think the ??? 
option is. how can i edit/change this? 
2. is the default shell csh? i miss the colors of bash. (yeah, pretty lame...)
3. are the any faqs/web pages out there that explain how to get a dial-up ppp 
(isp) connection up and running?

any help would be appreciated! thanks.

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