On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:34:00AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sigh... I wanted to be sending this with the bsd laptop, bug havnt gotten
> it doing ppp yet... Ethernet was easy... dialup is not as easy... Ill read
> the ppp or pppd man pages... 

ppp, you should only have to 'cp ppp.conf.sample ppp.conf' and edit
a few lines in ppp.conf (like the phone #, your login and passwd).  You 
*could* do pppd, but who wants to write chat scripts :p

> there are scripts in /etc/ppp but none that
> im used to. 

Yep, ppp is different than setting up pppd in Linux (with whatever tool
you use).

> so... where do I find this bsdi navigator?

You'll have to get it from Netscape's ftp site.

> I also noticed an odd thing, It now boots and sees the 24 megs ram 
> (although the number is an odd one...) it says that only 17 megs are 
> usable? what is that about? is the kernel taking up 6 megs? 

Probably.  GENERIC has a lot of drivers and other stuff you probably don't
need.

> hmmm x has a lot of libs... but which to delete :(

$ for i in /usr/local /usr/X11R6; do \
find $i -name \*.a -o -name \*.h | xargs sudo rm; done

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