Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 21:39:06 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: bsletten@charon.prawdc.com, ponds!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Notebooks Message-ID: <199612310239.VAA01342@lakes.water.net>
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> > Hi, folks. > > I've been out of the FreeBSD loop for a while and would like to find out > how 2.1.6 does on notebook computers. I tried a quick search of the > archives and couldn't really come up with anything that spoke about it. > > Have many people successfully installed FreeBSD on notebook computers? > If so, do they have to be pretty standard machines (ThinkPad, WinBook, > etc)? I've got a reasonably new "generic" notebook at my disposal to > install FreeBSD onto. If I can, I would like to. > Brian - Just a data-point for you (well, two actually) - I've got FreeBSD 2.1.6 installed on (a now ancient) CompuAdd 325tx (386sx-25 w/120meg HD, 8meg RAM) and 2.1.5 an Acer Note 75 (Pentium 75 w/810meg HD, 8 meg RAM PS/2 mouse) Both of these run X11, etc... I've not sucessfully gotten my no-name PCMCIA ne2000 clone ethernet card to work yet - I'm waiting on 2.2 to dive into that again. FreeBSD should work fine on your WinBook... I believe there are some keyboard issues with the ThinkPad and you may have to have a new kernel... - Dave Rivers -
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