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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:51:49 -0500
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        "E. Romeo" <romeo@acheloos.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD on a laptop Compaq
Message-ID:  <20010602115148.A19798@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org>
References:  <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org>

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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:34:45AM +0200, E. Romeo wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I'd soon wish to install the last version of FreeBSD on a laptop Compaq
> Armada E500. I didn't still decide what hardware options to take (I suppose
> 10 Gb Hard disk, 256 Kb Cache, Pentium III 600 Mhz, 64 Mb RAM, XGA TFT,
> multibay extension).
> 
> I'd like just to know whether it is possible to install FreeBSD on such a
> machine to configure it as a work station. Are there particular troubles
> for the installation ? If someone know that problem and could give me some
> warning, I'd be very grateful .
> 
> Thank you 
> 
I had an E500 last year with 4.0-RELEASE loaded.  It worked well except
for the windmodem.

If you're going to run X, I'd go for 128MB RAM.

-- 

Regards,
Doug

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