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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!engr.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie Questions Date: 28 Oct 1995 20:31:31 -0800 Organization: shot from guns! Lines: 34 Sender: nawaz921@hidden.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <im68h8ewrg.fsf@hidden.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <46racu$87h@wn.aksi.net> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: hidden.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: morpheus@aksi.net's message of 27 Oct 1995 19:02:54 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.13 In article <46racu$87h@wn.aksi.net> morpheus@aksi.net (Jeremy Dobrick) writes: $ 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 Hmm. I can run it find; perhaps there's some other problem with it? You can download whatever you want, and install w/o it. for instance, to install (say) ssys.*, download the files, do cd / cat /path/to/files/ssys.* | tar xzvf - $ 2) This is silly but I kind of miss the color menus from Linux- is this $ availible fro FreeBSD? man -k dialog $ 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? Just the ssys.* files. $ 4) Is there a simple terminal program like Minicom for FreeBSD? The PPP $ term is not that great IMHO and seyom is a pain. kermit? :) I don't know. I use ppp all the time.