I gave up Slack and installed Debian, and I'm going to try that. I figure
since I don't have my Red Hat disc, and my system just basically went to
hell because of Minix, I'll try out each Linux distro that I have so that
I can see about the differences in each one. I haven't tried Debian
enough to see if I like it yet.
- Mike
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Others have already addressed the minix part of your posting. To get PPP
> running on Slackware:
>
> 1. Make sure your modem is configured properly. Slackware usually prompts
> you for this during an installation, so I'll assume you already have this
> part right.
>
> 2. Go to /usr/sbin and edit the script "ppp-on" to put in the necessary
> personalization -- ISP phone number, userid, password, etc. Run the script
> to start a pppd connection.
>
> 3. Before you connect, add the ISP's nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf .
>
> 4. To end a ppp sesssion, there is a script /usr/sbin/ppp-off .
>
> 5. If you're having problems connecting, check the messages from pppd and
> chat in /var/log/messages . Also check "route -n" while pppd is active to
> make sure the default route is set right, and ifconfig to make sure the ppp0
> device is installed properly.
>
> This is the clunky way to run pppd, by hand. diald works fine with
> Slackware, and I assume you know from other distributions how to use it.
>
> At 06:54 AM 3/9/99 -0500, Michael Trausch wrote:
> >I downloaded Minix the other day and tried to install it yesterday...
> >=(... it ate my partitions on my hard drive. And what's worse, I can't
> >find my Red Hat 5.2 CD-- so I'm using Slackware (which I can't figure out
> >how to connect via PPP to the 'net... =(
>
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