Hello Ajay, On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:23, ajay gopalakrishnan wrote: > I've recently installed FreeBSD release 6.2 successfully except that > the following things that i need importantly dont work. How should i do > these?
this is the wrong list to ask such questions. I referred your email to the more appropriate list "freebsd-questions". You might also find that the handbook can be quite helpful. > 1. I am using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). I am running FreeBSD on Vmware > and i set the network connection as "Bridged" on Vmware. I configured > my Ethernet device with the correct IP, Gateway, Netmask, DNS but i > dont know how to start my internet on FreeBSD. All i do to connect to > the internet on Windows is give my username and password. I also read > the PPPoE chapter on the FreeBSD manual but of no use. How should i > start PPoE on FreeBSD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html > 2. I need Vim. I dont want to use Vi. I searched in my CD-1 and CD-2. > But i could not find the package "vim" inside it. Since i am not able > to connect to the internet is there any other way to install Vim ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/editors.html > 3. How should i configure FreeBSD to start in X mode directly. > Currently i have to do startx to start X on my machine. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > 4. I want to make "bash" as the default shell instead of "csh". Where > is that configured? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/shells.html > 5. Where are the kernel sources located? I need it because i want to do > kernel network programming? Is having kernel sources sufficient or > there are other dependencies also? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-choosing.html > 6. How do developers usually keep their kernel sources in sync with the > main Central Kernel source? Do we use CVS or Subversion for this? Use a cvsup file along these lines: --- *default host=cvsup.XXX.FreeBSD.org *default base=/home/YYYY/.cvsupdb *default prefix=/home/YYYY/fcvs *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all doc-all www cvsroot-all --- After that "cvs -d /home/YYYY/fcvs co src" will get you up and running. Ready to do "cvs diff -u" to check for the local changes you made etc. As a side note: If you can't figure out simple questions like this by your self, you will have a hard time to do actual development. We provide a large amount of documentation, but you must use it yourself! -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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