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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installing FreeBSD over a modem on sio2 Date: 5 Jan 1996 13:39:51 GMT Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4cj9n7$2po@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Hi All, Well, I've finally got off my butt and tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 2.1-Release. The new installation stuff looks really slick, and I'd like to use the "install via ftp" option, over PPP (all those floppies really sucked). However, my modem is on COM3 (sio2). It seems that the installation kernel only likes sio0 and sio1. In the old FreeBSD, I had to recompile the kernel, and create the /dev/cuaa2 device manually. Obviously, I can't do this from a boot floppy :) So my question is : Can one install via PPP/ftp over a COM3 modem? If so, how? Or do I have to pop the case and force my modem to be COM1? Thanks, Alec -- Alec Habig, Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu http://www.astro.indiana.edu/home/ahabig/ Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.