I need Help Please.
Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Fowler___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need Help Please.
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:15, darkstarmaster21 wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much Hmm, you can download iso. There's no need to do them yourself. trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which This is a bit intricate. You can use a bootloader for that job. FreeBSD has one very basic included but I suggest you have a look at http://gag.sourceforge.net/ took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my That's correct. You can have a complete BSD OS without X on a 250MB CD iso display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I Try the nvidia drivers. Just cd into /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and type make install. You need to have the ports tree installed. For more info see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html For tuning your resolution the relevant lines from XF86Config are: Section Screen Identifier YourScreen Device Your nvidia card MonitorYourMonitor DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection The order of the resolutions listed is determinig the resolution which X starts with. See http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/ for details looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. It isn't harder. It's a complete operating system, not just a kernel with assorted ingredients arround. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. Well, thats not enough info to help you. Basically you need two interfaces on the FreeBSD box, depending on your DSL hardware you need either mpd (or any other way you like to handle ppp (pppoE or pptp, depending on your DSL-line)) and on the second card a private IP with a correct subnetmask, lets say 192.168.0.1/24. The /24 means 24bits of the address are network bits and the rest 8 bits are host bits wich is a network mask of 255.255.255.0! Now you have to assign your XP box a address from the same subnet named 192.168.0.0/24. The .1 is occupied by your FreeBSD box, .255 is for broadcasts reserved so you can choose between 2 and 254. Lets take 2. Sou you assign you XP bos the address 192.168.0.2 and the netmask 255.255.255.0. If you connected your network cards correctly (x-cable or hub or switch) you can now ping the 192.168.0.1 from the XP box and the 192.168.0.2 from the FreeBSD box. You can edit your file /etc/hosts and enter a name for 192.168.0.2 (e.g. xpbox) so you can ping xpbox. For details see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ advanced-networking.html -Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Fowler pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: I need Help Please.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:15:28 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) darkstarmaster21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello My name is Ron. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD. I downloaded a copy to my machine and created a iso. Burned it and installed the system with not much trouble. The problem is I have a old Gateway G6-266m with 128mb ram , a CDrom, burner and 2 Drives One has XP Pro on it and is switchable by the bios on which can boot up first. I installed version 5.1 FreeBSD which took 3 cd's to be burned, what I cant understand is it never asks for more than one cd. I never even looked at the other two. cause I can't get my display to work. I tried xf86Config and other I found in the /usr/X11R6/bin folder but nothing works right. To get a working XF86Config use XFree86 -configure. Then move that file to /etc/X11/XF86Config Then to config the file use xf86cfg -textmode to configure it. Note: on some systems you may have to go in and comment out the dri line on some gfx cards. I have a RIVA 128 card in here with 4 mb ram and it always crashes and never starts. I switched to a generic vga card and it started but it was 640 x 280 way too big to use and see. I'm stuck. I cant remember the commands and I'm unable to use midnight commander for which I'm used to when looking thru directory.I truly want to master this system and become a help to others when I'm better, but I'm afraid I don't know enough. I looked for a listing of commands and all i see is stuff I don't quite understand. I'm trying to get away from windows completely so I can be a champion for linux/ unix but I cant even demonstrate what I can do with it with the limited knowledge I have. I tried the commands I know in linux but this is pure unix which is a lot better and more secure and a lot harder. Please help me and I will be glad to bring other to the fold and teach them someday. Uhm, having a error message to go by would be really useful. Hmm, if this is your first time trying stuff like this, don't worry about it, some of the finer parts of unix take awhile to learn. Here are some good starting places... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi Generally the best way to get help on a specific command is to use man... do a mam man to find more out about the man program. I can be reached at home at 215-324-1605 or by e-mail. I know you guy's can get me up to speed but I plan to give back someday. So teach me well and I can help carry the burden someday. I have DSL as well and I wanted to connect my FreeBSD to my other PC thru a crossover cable to my second NIC ( win2000 machine- has DSL on 1st Nic card) can you tell me what I need to do to connect and will this be networked finally. I have been trying for 2 weeks and I'm at the point I want to give up cause I'm not able to ping the w2k box from my bsd box at all. I think this is enough for now. I'm confident that I'm in the right place for help now. Lets make this part simple... use the freebsd box for nat and not the win2k machine. Check out the nat page in the handbook(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd .html and if you have not done so, read the rest of the handbook. Just put on of the nics in the bsd box on dhcp for the dsl adapter and the other to something like 192.168.0.1. Now plug your win2k machine into the second one and give it something like 192.168.0.2 and tell it to use 192.168.0.1 as the gateway. Hope this has been of help. If you have any other questions feel free to ask :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
