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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
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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