Add a few questions, especiallyuy two answered by Jordan in Usenet.

Change one to a better form. Add a mention about quotas.
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<title>Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X
<author>The FreeBSD FAQ Team, <tt/FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG/
<date> $Id: freebsd-faq.sgml,v 1.19 1995/11/13 22:53:21 roberto Exp $
<date> $Id: freebsd-faq.sgml,v 1.20 1995/11/20 22:32:13 roberto Exp $
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 2.0.5+, unless otherwise noted.
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SLIP/PPP, sendmail, INN/NNTP, printing, etc.. It's expensive
(approx. US&dollar;45-&dollar;55), but worth it. It also
includes a CDROM with the sources for various tools; most of
these, however, are also on the FreeBSD 2.0.5R CDROM (and the
these, however, are also on the FreeBSD 2.1.0R CDROM (and the
FreeBSD CDROM often has newer versions).
<sect1>
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<heading>How do I install FreeBSD?</heading>
<p>
<bf/IMPORTANT NOTE/ if you are installing 2.0.5R from tape, see
<bf/IMPORTANT NOTE/ if you are installing 2.1.0R from tape, see
the question titled,
<ref id="install-tape" name="Help! I can't install from tape!">
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<heading>Can I mount my DOS extended partitions?</heading>
<p>
This feature isn't in FreeBSD 2.0.5 but should be in 2.1. We've
This feature isn't in FreeBSD 2.1 but should be in 2.2. We've
laid all the groundwork for making this happen, now we just need
to do the last 1% of the work involved.
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<sect1>
<heading>Help! I can't install from tape! The install fails with a ``record too big'' error!<label id="install-tape"></heading>
<p>
If you are installing 2.0.5R from tape, you must create the tape
If you are installing 2.1.0R from tape, you must create the tape
using a tar blocksize of 10 (5120 bytes). The default tar
blocksize is 20 (10240 bytes), and tapes created using this
default size cannot be used to install 2.0.5R; with these tapes,
default size cannot be used to install 2.1.0R; with these tapes,
you will get an error that complains about the record size being
too big.
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This file describes how to setup sup on your machine. You may
also want to look at
<sect1><heading>Has anyone done any temperature testing while running FreeBSD? I know linux runs cooler than dos, but have never seen a mention of FreeBSD. It seems to run really hot</heading>
<p>
No, but we have done numerous taste tests on blindfolded
volunteers who have also had 250 micrograms of LSD-25
administered beforehand. 35% of the volunteers said that FreeBSD
tasted sort of orange, whereas Linux tasted like purple haze.
Neither group mentioned any particular variances in temperature
that I can remember. We eventually had to throw the results of
this survey out entirely anyway when we found that too many
volunteers were wandering out of the room during the tests, thus
skewing the results. I think most of the volunteers are at Apple
now, working on their new ``scratch and sniff'' GUI. It's a
funny old business we're in!
<sect1><heading>Is there anything "odd" that FreeBSD does when compiling the kernel which would cause the memory to make a scratchy sound? When compiling (and for a brief moment after recognizing the floppy drive upon startup, as well), a strange scratchy sound emanates from what appears to be the memory banks.</heading>
<p>
Yes! You'll see frequent references to ``daemons'' in the BSD
documentation, and what most people don't know is that this
refers to genuine, non-corporeal entities that now possess your
computer. The scratchy sound coming from your memory is actually
high-pitched whispering exchanged among the daemons as they best
decide how to deal with various system administration tasks.
If the noise gets to you, a good ``<tt>fdisk /mbr</tt>'' from DOS
will get rid of them, but don't be surprised if they react
adversely and try to stop you. In fact, if at any point during
the exercise you hear the satanic voice of Bill Gates coming from
the built-in speaker, take off running and don't ever look back!
Freed from the counterbalancing influence of the BSD daemons, the
twin demons of DOS and Windows are often able to re-assert total
control over your machine to the eternal damnation of your soul.
Given a choice, I think I'd prefer to get used to the scratchy
noises, myself!
<tt>/usr/src/share/examples/sup/*-supfile</tt>, or you may grab
updated supfiles from:
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This can be configured in <tt>/etc/sysconfig</tt>. See the
appropriate comments in tis file.
In 2.0.5R, everything related to text fonts, keyboard mapping is
in <tt>/usr/share/examples/syscons</tt>.
In 2.0.5R and later, everything related to text fonts, keyboard
mapping is in <tt>/usr/share/examples/syscons</tt>.
The following mappings are currently supported:
<itemize>
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rm /var/db/kvm_*.db
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>I'm trying to use quotas for my users and it keeps bombing...</heading>
<p>
<enum>
<item>Don't turn on quotas on '/',
<item>Put the quota file on the file system that the quotas are
to be enforced on. ie:
<verb>
FS QUOTA FILE
/usr /usr/admin/quotas
/home /home/admin/quotas
...
</verb>
</enum>
<sect>
<heading>Networking</heading>
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<url url="http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/How/handbook/diskless.html"
name="Handbook's section on diskless boot">
<sect1>
<heading>I want to setup aliases for my hosts but each time I get
the following message: ``File exists''.
<p>
Try adding <tt/nettmask 0xffffffff/ to each <tt/ifconfig(8)/
command line.
<sect1>
<heading>I've heard that you can use a FreeBSD box as a dedicated network router - is there any easy support for this?</heading>
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networking on FreeBSD is basically the same as on SunOS 4.0 or
Ultrix.
<sect1>
<heading>How can I setup Ethernet aliases ? It always says: ``File exists''.</heading>
<p>
Add ``<tt/netmask 0xffffffff/'' to your <tt/ifconfig/
command-line like the following:
<verb>
ifconfig ed0 alias 204.141.95.2 netmask 0xffffffff
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>How do I get my 3C503 to use the other network port?</heading>