Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:43:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with Dell Inspiron 5000 installation Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004291331040.7350-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook and have already installed Windows 98 on the first 60% of the 12Gig disk. Now I want to install FreeBSD 4.0-Release in the rest 40% of the disk. I met the following problems: (1) After booting from the two floppies, I try to do fdisk in sysinstall. But it says "no disk". (2) I can not let the notebook to boot from CD-ROM. I have the first bootable CD-ROM that I used on desktop PCs with no problems. I can not press DEL to bring up the BIOS screen during bootup. (3) I want to configure X-windows on this notebook. How do I choose the frequence for the monitor and resolution for the video card? I read from the XFree86 site that incorrect setting could damage monitors. (4) Is the Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 card supported in 4.0? How to configure it if so? The manuals come with the laptop do not contain these information. The notebook is described at http://www.dell.com/us/en/hied/products/spec_inspn_5000_notebooks.htm. Any help is appreciated. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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