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___ _______ \ \ || / \\ \ |¦NFA / vark@globalnet.co.uk THE INTERNET INSTALLER \\ \ |: / _______ ____ __ Version 1.2 (BETA) \\ \_|. //\ || __ ) || | / ) \ | /// \ |: || / |: |/ _/ 1st January 1996 \ | /// \ |. ~~ \ |: \ \ // /\ \|. |\ \ |. |\ \ Beta Tested by Biker \// / \ | | \ )| | \ ) mike@bevans.demon.co.uk ¬¯¯ ¬¯¯¯¯ ¯¯ ¯¯ ¯¯ Please read this doc carefully. I have tried to make it as easy as possible, but considering the poor state of Amiga Internet ready packages (ie none available), it is quite a tall task. This software is intended to be a replacement for the stuff supplied by your Internet Provider, as I have been reliably informed that companies such as Demon just supply you with the network software and email capability. After receiving a three month Internet connection present from my friend Biker, I was dismayed at the lack of easily accessible Internet software for the Amiga. Over the past month, I have slowly familiarised myself with the likes of AmiTCP, Amosaic etc. Yet there is still no complete solution for users new to the 'net'. Therefore, this little package will allow you to install a suite of programs to give you to easy access the Internet, with little trouble. (ha-ha) Once installed you will be able to browse the World Wide Web, send and receive Email, Read/Post News, and log onto FTP sites from around the world and download glorious Amiga software. Please note that this is the beta version, and is a bit rough round the edges. Everyones Workbench is set up slightly different, but I have tried to use everday files that you should have on your hard drive. In order to fully install this you will require approximately 4.4mb of free hard disk space. This package contains the following Distribution variation archives :- UUxT3.1 - Asher Feldman mNEWS V0.1 - Johnb@scinter.aftec.gov MFTPV1.31 - Michael Neuweiler AMS V42.1 - David N Junod MUI3.1usr - Stefan Stuntz AirMail2 - Danny Y Wong PPP1_30 - Holger Kruse Amosaic V2 beta - Amosaic Development Team MosaicMail - Fabio Caruso AmiTCP4.0 Demo - NSDi These are the main ones, there are a few programs also included such as Nico Francais PPguide and PPMore. I am having trouble getting Mosaic Mail to work. It will GET your mail and display it for you, but when you want to send an email to an address on the screen, it fails. You will have to set up this portion yourself. See the MosaicMail.Doc in AmiTCP-4.0 drawer for more info. This installation was made on an Amiga A1200 with 6MB RAM, 50MHZ 68030, but I do not see any problems on a bog standard A1200, except you may have to incorporate memory saving techniques. Sorry, but I no longer consider the A500 & A600 as 'The Standard Amiga'. NB == You will need the IP address of your Internet provider. This is required for AmiTCP installation. If you have a PC and are using Winsock, then the IP address (or nameserver address) will be in the SETUP menu (where the baud rate etc is) of Trumpet, the dial up program. Example, it looks like this 194.72.32.34 If you are unsure, contact your Internet provider and ask them. To explain it simply, each Internet Provider, whether it be Globalnet, Demon etc, have their own unique address, numerically, on the Internet, similiar to your postal address, so that the net knows where to send your mail etc. If your connection is not dynamic, then you will have to find out your own unique IP address as well as your Internet Provider's. To decide whether you have a dynamic address or not, seems to depend whether you have an extra node in your email address. a. sid@blobnet.co.uk - chances are if your email looks like this it is dynamic ie Globalnet etc, and you do not need to find out your own IP address as you are automatically allocated one when you dial up. b. bert@smithies.demon.co.uk - chances are that if your email looks like this then it is not dynamic, and you will have to find out your IP address, ask your Internet Provider, or it should be somewhere within the software included by your provider. ie Demon etc. Here we go, eyes down, look in. I have included a DELME file that you need to boot from NET1 disk first before using to remove all signs of this installation. If you want to get rid of it from your hard drive !?! INSTALLATION ------------ A. MUI - This installation will put an unregistered Version 3.1 of the Magic User Interface on your computer. If you already have this version or an older one, then you can do either of the following: a. Use MUI 3.1 to be installed. You will need to remove any assigns made to your MUI in the S:User-Startup before commencing this installation. Then rebooting your Amiga, delete the MUI drawer from wherever it is located, and delete MUI drawer from sys:prefs/env-archive/. b. Use your current MUI. Do the installation, remove the 3.1 assigns from your s:user-startup I put in, reboot and delete the MUI drawer from SYS:AmiTCP-4.0/. You may have to set up your prefs again within your version of MUI. (If you already have AmiTCP installed on your Amiga, I do not think there is any need to use this installation !? Go and play Worms !) B. After booting the computer from your hard drive, insert NET1 disk and click on the Install icon to copy all the files onto your hard drive. C. Once this is fully complete, go into the Amitcp-4.0/AMS drawer and install the datatype files. D. Reboot your Amiga. E. Now click on the Install_AmiTCP icon in the AmiTCP-4.0 drawer. AMITCP INSTALLATION ------------------- This is a walk through of the AmiTCP installation. So, it may be best to print this .readme file out before attempting the AmiTCP install. 1. Click on AmiTCP-Install icon. 2. Proceed 3. Proceed 4. Proceed 5. Proceed (This should show the full path where AmiTCP-4.0 is installed) 6. Click on button of Reconfigure AmiTCP & Proceed 7. Enter vark as the default user name. (lower case !) 8. Internet Access Dynamic (Y/N) If you answered YES for Dynamic go to step 20 (as explained at NB.) 9. Computer name (bit after @ eg dodgy@house.demon.co.uk, therefore house) 10. Domain name ie demon.co.uk 11. aliases (I think this should be your user id eg dodgy) 12. Proceed 13. Select PPP & Proceed 14. Select PPP & Proceed 15. Your own unique IP address 16. Enter again and proceed 17. Proceed 18. Is this correct, select YES if it is 19. Then go to step 26. 20. Enter Domain name. (everthing after the @ in your email address) 21. Select PPP & Proceed 22. Select PPP & Proceed 23. Enter 0.0.0.0 & Proceed 24. Enter 0.0.0.0 & Proceed 25. Proceed then click on YES 26. Amiga 'A' key & X to clear box then Proceed 27. Enter IP address of your host/nameserver as mentioned above in NB. 28. Proceed 29. Proceed 30. Proceed 31. No. 32. Proceed 33. No. 34. You should be now back at the list of buttons, click on Proceed. The AmiTCP installation is now complete, you now have to configure the PPP program. PPP dials your Internet Provider, AmiTCP takes over once your are connected, to do the communicating between programs etc. F. PPP Installation. The configuration file for PPP is stored in sys:prefs/env-archive/Sana2 and once this installation is on your hard drive will look like this :- From the CLI (SHELL); name: ppp0.config use C:ED sys:prefs/env-archive/Sana2/ppp0.config to make changes. Then esc + x + enter to save & quit if you altered something, or esc + q + enter if you left the file as is. sys:devs/serial.device 0 57600 0.0.0.0 7WIRE DIALSCRIPT=sys:AmiTCP-4.0/PPP/dialscript (all on one line, I have split it for this .readme, so it fits on the screen) - sys:devs/serial.device is the standard Amiga serial device, and the 0 after is the unit number, no need to change. - 57600 is the baud rate, my USR Robotics 28,800 works okay with this. If you have a 14,400 modem I would suggest changing this to 38400. - 0.0.0.0 leave if your IP is dynamic, or put your own IP address here if your access is not dynamic. - Leave 7wire and the path as is. (Read PPP.guide in amitcp-4.0/PPP if you want to know more about this config file.) Now Change the "C:ED sys:AmiTCP-4.0/bin/startnet" script: Delete the first few lines that start with ".key",".bra",".ket",".def". Add the lines sys:system/rexxmast online devs:networks/ppp.device 0 at the beginning of the file. Change the line starting with "AmiTCP:bin/ifconfig ppp0 ..." to AmiTCP:bin/ifconfig ppp0 $ppp0iplocal $ppp0ipremote Change the line starting with "AmiTCP:bin/route add ..." to AmiTCP:bin/route add $ppp0iplocal localhost After that line, add the line AmiTCP:bin/route add default $ppp0ipremote Check that in the "sys:AmiTCP-4.0/db/interfaces" file: The line ppp0 DEV=DEVS:networks/ppp.device UNIT=0 IPTYPE=33 NOARP P2P is the last line in the script. Check that in the "sys:AmiTCP-4.0/bin/Stopnet" file: The line offline ppp0.device 0 is somewhere within the script. Type in the following lines :- protect sys:amitcp-4.0/bin/Startnet srwed protect sys:amitcp-4.0/bin/Stopnet srwed edit the following file C:ED sys:amitcp-4.0/ppp/Dialscript and follow the instructions found within this file to setup your telephone number etc. G. After rebooting your machine again you should be ready to log onto the Internet. Connect your modem to the Amiga's serial port, switch it on, and make sure you are connected to the phone line. Click on the AmiTCP-4.0 drawer, click on BIN drawer, click on STARTNET icon. If you set the DIALSCRIPT correct, PPP will dial and logon automatically to your Internet Provider, the tone will stop, your baud rate will be displayed, a few lines will flash by in the Dialling... window then the DIAL window will disapear. AmiTCP will start. Enter user id vark and password Isanoid wait for the OK to become clear and click it. When you see the [CLI ?] as the last line in the ICONX window, click the top left gadget of it's window to close it. You are now logged into the Internet. H. MFTP. Your email address needs adding into SETUP in MFTP before you log onto any FTP sites. ie biker@bother.demon.co.uk. Always tick the annonymous box when logging onto new FTP's sites that you have put in yourself. I. You will have to set up the Airmail program yourself in order to send and receive email. I like this email program, I think it is easy and cool, and well worth the $20 registration fee, so get it done ! What you need to set up here, once you have entered Airmail for the first time, is the config setup on the settings menu. Ignore the 'can not find user prefs file' and click ok passed this, this error only occurs because you have not yet entered your details. SMTP My address (vark@globalnet.co.uk) just involves putting mail.globalnet.co.uk in this box, however, each Internet provider is different, Demon's for instance would be (vark@anoid.demon.co.uk) to put post.anoid.demon.co.uk. Check with your internet provider if not sure or see your Internet Provider software. DOMAIN This for me would be globalnet.co.uk, for Demon users it would be demon.co.uk. USER This for me would be simply vark. eg sid@cottage.demon.co.uk would be sid The other config you may need to alter is the location of your text editor for writing the email on the other config menu item. J. I have enclosed mNEWS as a late addition, but this is another aspect you will have to set up. I only intended to get you going on WWW, FTP and Email, as they are the main three uses, I think. The NNTP host it asks for is the same as your mail address but with news added instead. ie If your Email is john@bridge.co.uk then your NNTP is news.bridge.co.uk. Check with your Internet provider for clarification of your NNTP. Ignore the .subscript error on first going into the program, it's because your details are not set. K. Recommendations. To properly view the WWW you need to have your screen mode to Hi Res LACED and 256 cols. However, the less colours you have, the faster it is, and it may be better on lesser Amiga's, but the pictures are not as nice. I would also recommend you removing any WBPatterns you may have displayed. Also if you have LSD's ASSOCIATE program running in the background, quit it. Virus Checker seems to be okay running in the background. L. Once this installation is complete, it will give you a fully working AmiTCP net server for which you can then download and add your own additions. PROBLEMS -------- If you ever get any problems, all the docs are available for each part of the installation, so try reading the installation guide in the respective program you are having problems with. You can always mail me at vark@globalnet.co.uk with any problems, I may be able to sort it out for you. If for some reason after dialling you do not get through, it will go into AmiTCP regardless. Just follow the motions and click on Stopnet. It could have been because all the lines were busy. Turn your modem on/off as well. This installation is fully working on my Amiga, so I know it does work. What I have virtually provided is a 'mirror' of the setup on my hard drive, with the above instructions required to tailor it your your Internet provider. You must not forget that Amiga software for the Internet is quite terrible when compared to the PC stuff. Remember AMOSIAC 2 is a BETA RELEASE etc. All the programs included are either PD or shareware, and I urge you to register them, as you will benefit from doing this. For instance if you are unsure how to register software, then read on. PPP registration is fifteen US dollars. Go to your main head post office in your town, there should be a buraue de change, simply go to this counter and say you want to buy $15 US dollars (about £8). Print out and fill in the PPP registration form, include a personal letter to the author if you wish, and send it airmail to the authors address, in the PPP.guide. You should really send cash/notes as Internationally registered post, but I have never had any trouble, as long as you make sure it is secure in the envelope. You will receive in return from the author the latest version, which should include improvements to greater enhance the efficiency to the Internet. Think about registering your software, you know it makes sense. My spelling mistakes. How on earth do you spell bureua ? HISTORY ------- V1.0a The original V1.1a Problems with C:ED your own script files in installation, asking for NET1: to be write unprotected ? Could be due to no T: in RAM: Removed three AMosaic Email scripts from Install due to this as it does not work properly anyway. Alter this .readme as I put ALT & X to clear a box when it is (A)miga key and X ! Also Install was deleting a non existant s:user-startup. Not too good at docs am I. Probably because this is becoming a bit larger ! Will anyone ever get it to work the way I wanted it too ? Mail me if you do ! DELME left two files still on your hard drive, corrected this. V1.2 Made an almighty mistake. Once you set up AmiTCP it rewrote Startnet and hence removed PPP, the dialler software so that you could not dial up your provider. Hence, the only way round this at the moment is for the user to setup PPP manually after the AmiTCP setup. Corrected Install and rewrote this .readme. This Internet installation is distributed as freeware, I will accept no responsibility for any person using this package, as they do so of their own free will and at their own risk. The copyright for all the programs within reside with the rightful authors. Any characters portrayed here are purely fictitous, and any relation to real life persons is purely coincidental. ______________________________________ / \ / A. M. I. G. A. \ /__________________________________________\ \ \/ \ \/ / /\ \_____ \ \ /\ / \ \ \_____ \ \ / /_ / \ \ \_____ \_____\/ / \__ / /\ \ -)vark(- \_____ / / \__ /_____/__\_____\___________________\/_______/__________\ \ / \ The Amiga International / \ User Groups Association / \________________________________________________/ If you want to know more about an association that cares about the Amiga, it's users, and everyone connected with this beloved machine, then please contact A.M.I.G.A. 190 Falloden Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb, LONDON, NW11 6JE. Membership is free to all, whether you be user, software/hardware company, PD library et al.