This manual follows the same chapter numbering ¹⁾ and is initially based on the unfinished Documentation Project that was started in 2000 by (retired FREESCO Team Member) Simon Byrnand, simon@freesco.org. This is based on the last known version v0.75, last updated 22 November 2000, which is also available at FREESCOSoft.

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 What is Freesco?
  • 1.2 Hardware requirements

• 2. Installation
  • 2.1 Downloading
  • 2.2 Creating a disk image
  • 2.3 Hardware configuration
  • 2.4 Supported Ethernet cards
  • 2.5 Quirks and setup of specific Ethernet cards

• 3. Configuration
  • 3.1 Initial setup
  • 3.2 Choosing router type
  • 3.3 Setup conventions
  • 3.4 Dialup router
  • 3.5 Leased line router
  • 3.6 Ethernet router
  • 3.7 Ethernet bridge
  • 3.8 Printer server
  • 3.9 Dialin server
  • Web server
  • 3.11 Combining modes
  • 3.12 Advanced setup
  • 3.13 Services
  • 3.14 Logging in and virtual consoles
  • 3.15 Changing the default passwords
  • 3.16 Running setup from a normal login session

• 4. Hard drive installation
  • 4.1 Preparing a hard drive
  • 4.2 Using move2hdd
  • 4.3 Booting automatically

• 5. Client Setup
  • 5.1 Default gateway, DNS, IP address, and Subnet Mask
  • 5.2 DHCP vs Manual configuration
  • 5.3 Windows 3.11 ²⁾
  • 5.4 Windows 95/98
  • 5.5 Windows NT4
  • 5.6 Windows 2000
  • 5.7 Windows XP
  • 5.8 Macintosh (Open Transport 1.1/System 7.6.1 or later)
  • 5.9 Linux
  • 5.10 Client software for printing

• 6. Client Application setup
  • 6.1 Internet Explorer
  • 6.2 Netscape Communicator
  • 6.3 FTP clients
  • 6.4 ICQ
  • 6.5 Mirc
  • 6.6 Napster
  • Diablo
  • Quake3 and other Quake engine derivatives

• 7. Troubleshooting
  • 7.1 Won't boot past loading ramdisk
  • 7.2 Won't boot past "mounting boot device"
  • 7.3 No ethernet cards are detected
  • 7.4 Cannot log in, crashing or "cannot fork()" errors
  • 7.5 PPP connection troubleshooting
  • 7.6 Preventing unwanted dialouts
  • 7.7 Debugging tools available - ping, traceroute, netstat, dmesg, etc.

• 8. Advanced Information
  • 8.2 Modem initialization strings
  • 8.3 Remote administration
  • 8.4 The ramdisk
  • 8.5 Directory structure
  • 8.6 Port forwarding
  • 8.7 Banning IP's
  • 8.8 Advanced NAT
  • 8.9 Advanced routing
  • 8.10 Multiple dialup ISP support
  • star
  • 8.12 Dyndns
  • server
  • 8.14 Restarting (some) services without rebooting
  • 8.15 Advanced DNS server configuration
  • 8.16 IP Masquerading description and modules
  • 8.17 Virtual consoles and the system log
  • 8.18 Saving a report file
  • 8.19 Security considerations
  • 8.20 Performance considerations
  • 8.21 Binary compatibility with Linux
  • 8.22 Copying files onto a freesco system

• 9. Command Summary
  • 9.1 Basic Unix commands (cat, cp, mv, cat, more, ps, kill, killall, df, free, adduser, passwd, chown, chmod….)
  • 9.1 edit
  • 9.1 tcpdump
  • 9.2 snarf
  • 9.3 date and clock
  • 9.4 minicom
  • 9.5 dmesg
  • 9.6 telnet, ping, traceroute, route
  • 9.7 ifconfig
  • 9.8 control
  • 9.9 setserial
  • 9.11 mode
  • 9.12 dyndns
  • 9.13 synctime
  • 9.14 ile
  • 9.15 reboot, halt
  • 9.16 htpasswd

• 10. Installing add-on packages
  • 10.1 Principle of packages
  • 10.2 Package commands
  • 10.3 Disclaimer and Warnings

• 12. Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
  • 12.1 What information do I need to give for help with a problem?
  • 12.2 Why don't you use a 2.2 kernel and ipchains?
  • 12.3 What does kernel: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from x.x.x.x mean?
  • 12.4 What does named: sysquery: findns error (2) on reliant.netgate.net.nz mean?
  • 12.5 Browsing to a page when the link is down causes a DNS or timeout error
  • 12.6 Free memory is gradually used up then the router crashes or wont allow me to log on
  • 12.7 What are these XSTATS messages in the log?
  • 12.8 The telnet server only accepts one connection at a time