From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 14:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9368E37BBF3 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05136; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:24:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10590; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:24:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:24:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003242224.PAA10590@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stan Osborne Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Mobile questions In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My employer wants to provide me with an "IBM Thinkpad 600X-7EU". I'm not sure if everything is fully supported (yet) on the 'X' model. I think someone mentioned that X is now supported, but that sound might not be. > I would prefer to run FreeBSD on this as the primary OS, dual booted > with Win 98. So I have looked around some FreeBSD web sites and > on cdrom.com. I have several questions. If any of you have time > to answer these or provide other advice, it would be greatly > appreciated. > > o Is PAO 3.4-RELEASE available on bootable CDROM for a fee? Nope. Although, FreeBSD 4.0 (just released) has laptop support in the installation built-in. > o Is there anything particularly unique about installing > FreeBSD on an IBM Thinkpad? For FreeBSD < 4.0, yes. If you're installing 4.0, it should work out of the box. For older releases, you have to remove any memory over 64MB you have in the box, and then build a custom kernel with the exact amount of memory reported at bootup in the kernel, install the kernel, turn off and install the memory, and then boot the new system. > o Is there a favored boot loader for dual-boot configurations? The stock FreeBSD boot configuration works fine. > o When will there be a PAO 4.0-RELEASE? ???? Don't know, I think they're working on integrating it into the 4.X releases instead, but I may be out to lucnh Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message