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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!tetsuo.communique.net!tetsuo.communique.net!not-for-mail From: mango@tetsuo.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installing FreeBSD over a PPP link. Date: 23 Sep 1995 08:56:35 -0500 Organization: Communique Inc., New Orleans Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4413mj$vid@tetsuo.communique.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tetsuo.communique.net Hello there... I was trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 over a ppp link... What happens is that after installing about 1% the line would disconnect. I would redial (from shell 4, as shell 3: ppp would not respond) and the transfer would continue. It would install another 2% of the package and the modem would hang up once more (etc, etc). I know I have no problems with the phone line/modem, and I know I can install FreeBSD on that machine, as I did it over Ethernet the previous week. (please do not say: if you did it over Ethernet, why do you want to do it again over ppp). Why: some of my customers would like to run FreeBSD in theyr UNIX boxes, and I am trying to give them a cheaper option than having to hire me to do it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raul Zighelboim e-mail: mango@communique.net Communique Inc. Tel: 504.527.6200 Technical Specialist Fax: 504.527.6030