Hell I just got freebsd installed onto the machine I was building. It's
config is: 486dx4-100, 16mb ram, Adaptect 1542 isa scsi card, Quantum 730Mb
scsi hd, Ne2000 (NON plauge and prey) network card, cirrus logic isa
videocard (can't see the number).

I booted with the freebsd install floppy, made a few system changes for
what I wanted to install etc.. jumptd over to my os/2 machine and fired up
the ftp server (the 486 will not be getting a cdrom) and wacked the Freebsd
2.2.2-release cd into the drive.

Shortly latter I had a system that would'nt boot (kept on getting a message
that the partition table was invalid).. I was ready to pull a few
handfull's of hair out then. after having a quick think, i then booted my
trusty MS-Dos V5 floppy and ran fdisk. Every partition on the hd was makred
as active. That was quickly fixed, and on the reboot, I got the same error.

Back to the freebsd boot floppy and I ran the fdisk for freebsd, and
noticed that there was no boot flag on the sd0s1 partition. That was
quickly fixed and a short reboot latter my free bsd machine is up and
running.


So after all that I had a lookaround the system, and it's very different to
linux. Now my question is, what's the best utils and changes I should make
to the system?

I want the freebsd machine to call my ISP and serve as a router/firwall
(what ever else) for my other two machines running Win95 and OS/2. At the
moment I don't have a 24hr connection and neither of the other machines
have ip address (I get a different IP each time I cal my isp).

So what's the best way to go about all this. I'll also have to figure out
how to re-compile the kernal to remove all the un-needed junk (I keep on
getting a mesasage saying that IRQ7 is doing something [there are no
devices in the machine configured for that IRQ. My net card use's 5, the
scsi card 15, and the standard serial ir'q for the serial ports].


Stephen
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