Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:38:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ira Feldman <I_MFeldman@msn.com> Cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM edition of FREEBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961203113508.4229C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <UPMAIL04.199611291725100934@msn.com>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Ira Feldman wrote: > Please confirm if the cdrom edition of FREEBSD will install onto an IBM > THINKPAD from ab inter-changeable CD-ROM drive or any LINUX > CD_ROM distribution that you know of. > Thanks for you help... Couple of potential gotchas: 1. At one point, some ThinkPads were having trouble with the system console such that the keyboard wouldn't work. I don't know if this afflicts the boot floppy or not. When you rebuild the kernel you can add an option to enable special handling of the ThinkPad keyboard. I don't have specifics on this, sorry, you'd have to try it and see if it's a problem. 2. FreeBSD's installer expects the CDROM to be in the machine at boot time. If this is a floppy-or-CDROM situation you won't be able to load from CDROM since you must start up from a floppy. The next best would be a network install from a local machine or from ftp.freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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