On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Paul Whiting wrote:

> How do I go on to the Internet from RiscBSD? I don't understand UNIX at 
> all and have no experience of it. I have the RiscDisc3 version of 
> RiscBSD, which I have installed after some complications.
> 
> From rcm (I think that's its name) I configured my hostname to be 
> 'whtng' and my  domain name to be 'demon.co.uk'. I expect that this is 
> hopelessly wrong - but what should I do? Please make your explanations 
> simple -ie. tell me what to type rather than to, for example 'configure 
> my account details'. 
Setting up the hostname is the first step and is correct.

Since you are a fellow demon user I have all the necessary scripts to 
actually provide the TCP/IP connectivity using ppp which I will be 
placing on my website http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/ this weekend. I 
will also add some instructions on how to set them up for demon. These 
scripts should be quite easily adaptable to many ISP's. With this 
connectivity RiscBSD will support Web Browsing and FTP without any 
further configuration.

Configuration of services like mail and news is a bigger issue. Running 
sendmail with the flags -bd will make your RiscBSD box receive mail for 
any users that you have set up and the default configuration will also 
correctly send mail using SMTP. 
For news you will need to look into a system such as inn, leafnode or an 
on line newsreader like slrn.

HTH 

Mike