New installation: Hanging when trying to dial out

[Quintin Riis]

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		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
> 
> 
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> 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.

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> 
>> 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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