Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:20:37 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> To: "Dimitrios Kalakanis" <dkalakan@Globeset.com> Cc: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ThinkPad 560 CDROM install Message-ID: <lflmratmnu.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: "Dimitrios Kalakanis"'s message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:42:59 -0600"
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:42:59 -0600, "Dimitrios Kalakanis" <dkalakan@Globeset.com> said: Dimitrios> Also, if I do the installation through ftp, would I be able Dimitrios> to use my CDROM drive later on? This is what I do. Install the OS from the net as normal: boot from boot disk, mount kernel disk, and pull the images from your closest distribution site. If I want to use my CD rom, hook it up to a PCMCIA SCSI card. I usually just use a CD attached to another computer by having the remote NFS export it and I mount it on the laptop; I don't like having to hang all the cables off the laptop. I've run FreeBSD on my Thinkpad 560X. Version FreeBSD2.1.x and 3.x have worked fine for me. Unfortunately, 4.x fails miserable, appearing to spin-up and spin-down the disk all the time. While it works, it's so slow as to be utterly useless, and I have a bad feeling it's wearing out the disk. I have yet to find a resolution to this problem. :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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