Hello Rowan_Crowe!

Monday September 15 1997 12:56, Rowan_Crowe wrote to Tony Frank:

 RC>>> I've just done a fresh install of FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE and it
 RC>>> went without too many hitches, oh apart from a HD dying... *sigh*
 TF>> Always a problem...   I've actually been thinking about installing a
 TF>> version on the computer I've just got enough bits for..   :-)
 RC> For me it's a business, I provide a service, so I need a couple of boxes
 RC> running FreeBSD 24 hours. One of those is a regular frankenstein though.
 RC> :)

Well, I've had a 486dx2-66 sitting around for a while now, but until
recently only had an 80 meg HD for it (not enough for a decent unix box) 
now I have a 600 odd meg HD which ought to serve fairly nicely.   Only 8
meg ram, but from what I understand that's enough to do just about
everything.

 TF>> Do you know if there's a dos emulator or similar for FreeBSD ?
 RC> From INSTALL.TXT:
 RC> 1.4     Can I run DOS binaries under FreeBSD?
 RC> Not yet!  We'd like to add support for this someday, but are still
 RC> I don't use X, so I haven't had a chance to check it out.

 RC> It might be possible to do a disgusting hack and somehow run a linux DOS
 RC> emulator under a FreeBSD linux emulator? :)



Ideally I'd be able to run part or all of the BBS through a unix machine. 
The idea is to have the unix machine sitting on the local ethernet, and
also having the modem & associated line connected to it.  During
regular "normal" use, it'd run the BBS, with Binkley handling any
mailer calls etc.  However whenever someone wanted to get their email or do
some web browsing, and the line is free, the system would then dial up our
ISP and we can then get mail etc.

I can run the BBS part of the system just fine on the current system, and
telnet in to it from the unix machine over the ethernet, (I have RLFOSSIL
setup successfully for local logins over the network already)

I guess the only "stumbling" block at the moment is
incoming/outgoing mail calls.  I dont know enough about unix systems to
know if I can rig something up to get a mailer to connect over the network
with binkley on the current BBS machine, such as if a user dialled in, I
was thinking the user could connect to the BBS using telnet or rlogin or
whatever from the unix machine, but I don't know if this can be automated
so an incoming mail call can be picked up by Bink on the BBS machine.

I guess the "ideal" situation would involve another modem &
phone line for the ISP connection, but I'd rather try to avoid that if
possible.

Well, there's my future plan out, I don't suppose you have any ideas (or
solutions preferably) for me?  hehe...

Regards,

        Tony

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