by Stephen Wenzle » Fri, 22 Oct 1999 04:00:00
by Andrew G. Bacch » Fri, 22 Oct 1999 04:00:00
The nice thing about FBSD is it can be used as a standalone machine or a
fully networkable server host. The option is all yours. I'm working on my
FBSD machine right now and for the most part it is standalone, although I
have my NT pc connected via ethernet. A home network if you will.
I suggest you start reading the handbook at www.freebsd.org. or if your
machine is up and running try the handbook in /usr/share/handbook. It will
take you some time to digest and impliment all that is there, but the
knowledge and satisfaction is well worth the effort.
I wonder if M$ will learn a lesson from Apple. Making it too easy is for
the ignorant.
GOOD LUCK.
by Stephen Wenzle » Fri, 22 Oct 1999 04:00:00
> The nice thing about FBSD is it can be used as a standalone machine or a
> fully networkable server host. The option is all yours. I'm working on my
> FBSD machine right now and for the most part it is standalone, although I
> have my NT pc connected via ethernet. A home network if you will.
> I suggest you start reading the handbook at www.freebsd.org. or if your
> machine is up and running try the handbook in /usr/share/handbook. It will
> take you some time to digest and impliment all that is there, but the
> knowledge and satisfaction is well worth the effort.
> I wonder if M$ will learn a lesson from Apple. Making it too easy is for
> the ignorant.
> GOOD LUCK.
> > I have a question for you - Is it possible to setup FreeBSD v3.2 as a
> > stand-alone OS on a single machine and equipped with a modem dialup
> > networking to connect to ISP to use client applications such as Lynx and
> > ircii software? If yes, pls give me simplified step by step after
> > installing either User or X + User have been installed so I can
> > correctly configures and setup the machine so it can be a stand-alone
> > machine like the Microsoft's Windows 95 OS. Thank you very much for your
> > assistance.
by Chris Gra » Sat, 30 Oct 1999 04:00:00
I just set up FreeBSD on a laptop for my cousin, also for dial-up PPP.
I copied /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, edited
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf to change four lines (renamed "papchap:" to "demon:",
supplied a phone no., userid and password), and added one line to
/etc/rc.local:
/usr/sbin/ppp -auto demon
and lo and behold, it dials Demon Internet on demand. Only problem was
what to do with the rest of the afternoon I'd set aside for the task ...
If you need to stay with 3.2 then it's not quite so easy to find what you
have to do, but when you find it it's not much. ;>
On my cousin's 500MB hard disk I set aside 64MB for swap and 64MB for a
DOS partition (just in case), and by the time I'd installed the FreeBSD
"X user" distribution and KDE I has about 64MB left over. So that 200MB
figure is a bit on the small side, unless you can live with a somewhat
spartan GUI such as icewm or wmx.
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