New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out
Quintin Riis
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Wed Jan 14 12:53:50 PST 2004
See http://speecart.chg.ru/handbook/disks-bios-numbering.html
Quintin
John Adams wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 06:57 PM, fbsd_user wrote:
>
>> Try this command to mount the cd drive.
>> First load the 4.6 install cd in cd drive
>> mount /cdrom
>> cd /cdrom
>> ls
>> cd /
>> umount /cdrom
>
>
> Success!
>
>> look at the etc/fstab to see how cd drive is configured
>
>
> Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass
> /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
>
>> Explain how you switch from booting winme to booting FBSD
>
>
================================================================
> I've yet to learn how to tell the bootloader to boot from the primary
> drive, so I just change the order of the drives in BIOS.
=================================================================
>
>> Verify floppy drive works in winme.
>
>
> And there's the answer--I believe this drive is dead. I recall it making
> noises some time ago, and it must've gone over the edge. Fortunately,
> Atlanta has some good stores--I've been wanting to pop down to the one
> by Tech for a while now, and this is as good an excuse as any.
>
> This brings me back to the modem question. I can type in the entries
> from ppp.conf and ppp.log--or I suppose I could try to learn to write to
> the FAT partition elsewhere on this drive, which I'm not unwilling to do
> (shouldn't be hard, which is what I thought about the modem.)
>
> Advice? And thanks again,
>
> John A
>
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