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This type of question should probably be sent to freebsd-questions. 
Anyways, you should make an inventory of you hardware (ethernet,
harddrives, any
raid controllers, etc.) 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html

and have a look at the hardware docs in either

ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/

ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2-RC2/

depending on which branch you are interested in.  

Ray Higgs



On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 00:32:38 -0000 "John Maclean" wrote:

> Sirs,
> 
> I have read our site http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html as I am
> interested in learning C on a UNIX type platform. Could you tell me
> please
> if  FreeBsd would run on a Athlon Xp based laptop?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John Maclean
> 
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