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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: newbie needs help with booteasy, etc... Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 08:17:27 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32B81917.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <59526u$j7p@kenya.javanet.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 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: harpo@javanet.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32759 John Szumowski wrote: > 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? Probably not easily - if it doesn't hurt anything, I'd just ignore it. > 2. is the default shell csh? i miss the colors of bash. (yeah, pretty lame...) Run `/stand/sysinstall configPackages' and select the bash package from shells. You probably also want the color_ls package.. :) > 3. are the any faqs/web pages out there that explain how to get a dial-up ppp > (isp) connection up and running? http://pinky.interaccess.com/jay/freebsd/ppp.html - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project