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From: morpheus@aksi.net (Jeremy Dobrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD Newbie Questions
Date: 27 Oct 1995 19:02:54 GMT
Organization: Acquired Knowledge Systems, Inc.
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Hi All!

Well I've moved over from Linux and I have a few questions.

1) the /stand/sysinstall file won't run now that the system is installed, 
I get a incorrect media type error? Is there a way to fix this. I would 
like to be able to run this so that I can add stuff to the system without 
d/l everything by hand

2) This is silly but I kind of miss the color menus from Linux- is this 
availible fro FreeBSD?

3) I d/l the sys source and I have a lot more than I expected, do I nedd 
the src for anything except /sys/i386 to rebuild the kernel?

4) Is there a simple terminal program like Minicom for FreeBSD? The PPP 
term is not that great IMHO and seyom is a pain.

Thanks for any help you can provide- Jeremy