Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 16:55:46 +0100 From: Seppo Ruuskanen <Seppo.Ruuskanen@axis.se> To: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> Cc: scotte@odie.center.uscs.com (L. Scott Emmons), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.usenet@roma.axis.se, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rgen?=.Hagg@axis.se Subject: Re: Re: FreeBSD custom bootfloppies Message-ID: <2.2b8.32.19951204155546.0069f30c@axisab>
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>> I never got any answers to my questions. My problem was (and is IBM >> Thinkpad 370C). I never got any further than You, my homemade >> bootfloppy behaved just like Yours. BOOTMFS cant be the whole answer! > >I can't find the original pointer, but I hope I can infer what's going on. > >1) You need 5MB of memory to install 2.1 on laptops (which means you > must have 8MB of memory) I have 12MB :-), happy me!... >2) IBM models require a special boot floppy which I have for -current, > but I don't have yet for 2.1R. (I suppose I could build it today. :) Thanks but I have this, ok it is for 2.0.5 but I managed to build a new one over the LAN after the installation. > >If you don't have both of the above, you can't install FreeBSD on an IBM >laptop. If you have both of the above (which you obviously don't have), >you won't be able to install FreeBSD successfully. You are right, but I have them both! :-), happy me again!... Ok, my problem is that I cant get XFree86 working with the PCVT displaydriver!. It would of course be nice if I could do my own distributionfloppys but in the meanwhile I can manage with the old. But to have my Thinkpad functional with FreeBSD I really want X also!. The keyboard and the mouse dies when I start up XFree86, not a single key works, they are totally dead. xev shows nothing when I start it (of course from another machine since the keyboard and mouse is dead) So please rewrite XFree86 and PCVT so that they do work on a Thinkpad!. What, do I expect to much from You, sorry - didnt mean to... Yours Seppo Ruuskanen
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