Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:24:46 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Andy Sparrow" <spadger@best.com>, "Philipp Westphal (aka WaSa)" <wasa@dark-waves.de> Cc: <mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 560x tp Message-ID: <000801c158fd$9f2bc2e0$6600000a@columbia> In-Reply-To: <20011019221903.E98253E8F@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andy Sparrow > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 6:19 PM > To: Philipp Westphal (aka WaSa) > Cc: mobile@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: 560x tp > > > i got freeBSd insatalled on an IBM tp 600, it seems that insatalling > > over cdrom isn't possible with tp's in general.. i had to boot over > > floppy and after that i was abel toinstall. > > in my older days i used debian GNU linux, there was no it was no > > problem, to boot over cdrom > > Hmm. While I was at Red Hat last year, I noticed that the TP 600 > (which they > had a bunch of) wouldn't boot a FreeBSD CD-ROM (3.4, IIRC), although they > /would/ boot the RH 6.[12] CDs. > > Wouldn't swear to it, but I think the IBM IntelliStations they had also > displayed similar symptoms. Didn't bother me too much at the > time, because my > laptop of the time wouldn't boot from /any/ CD, regardless.. :) This is getting a bit off topic, but I've seen (and have) an IBM PC-350 machine that will boot any OS install CD that I can find... except for ANY version of Linux. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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