Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-14 Thread Quintin Riis
See http://speecart.chg.ru/handbook/disks-bios-numbering.html Quintin John Adams wrote: On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:57 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Try this command to mount the cd drive. First load the 4.6 install cd in cd drive mount /cdrom cd /cdrom ls cd / umount

Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew Boothman
John Adams wrote: On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 09:59 PM, fbsd_user wrote: It would be a whole lot more helpful if you posted your ppp.conf and the ppp.log of your last test I may have to type this in--I'm unable to mount the floppy drive, and MAKEDEV is telling me bad unit for disk in: fd*

Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: How are you trying to mount your floppy? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt? Well, I was just naively trying mount /dev/fd0 /mnt, but now I've tried it as you suggest, and again gotten Device not configured. This is also what fdformat

Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew Boothman
John Adams wrote: On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: How are you trying to mount your floppy? mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt? Well, I was just naively trying mount /dev/fd0 /mnt, but now I've tried it as you suggest, and again gotten Device not configured. This is

RE: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread fbsd_user
: John Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:45 AM To: Andrew Boothman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: How are you trying to mount

Fwd: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Andrew Boothman wrote: I presume you get sio lines for all of your serial ports? My original point still stands, are you sure you're using the right one for where your modem is plugged in? Yes, I'm pretty sure--I mistakenly used cuaa1 in my earliest

New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
I love detailed questions! On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 01:05 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Why don't you start at the beginning and tell us about the PC you installed 4.6 on? It's an eMachines etower 600is Is this an pre Y2K box? Shouldn't be--I bought it new at Frye's in early 2001. What

RE: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread fbsd_user
: Hanging when trying to dial out I love detailed questions! On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 01:05 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Why don't you start at the beginning and tell us about the PC you installed 4.6 on? It's an eMachines etower 600is Is this an pre Y2K box? Shouldn't be--I bought it new at Frye's

Re: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-13 Thread John Adams
On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:57 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Try this command to mount the cd drive. First load the 4.6 install cd in cd drive mount /cdrom cd /cdrom ls cd / umount /cdrom Success! look at the etc/fstab to see how cd drive is configured

New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-12 Thread John Adams
Hi, folks, I've got a brand-new installation of FreeBSD and the next thing I want to do is upgrade from 4.6 (the CD I had) to 4.9 or 5.1. However, first I need to dial out, and there I'm having a problem. I've followed the instructions (I hope!) in Chapter 18 of the handbook, and whatever

RE: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

2004-01-12 Thread fbsd_user
, 2004 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out Hi, folks, I've got a brand-new installation of FreeBSD and the next thing I want to do is upgrade from 4.6 (the CD I had) to 4.9 or 5.1. However, first I need to dial out, and there I'm having