Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:40:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Dell Inspiron 5000 installation Message-ID: <20000430114002.B88370@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004291331040.7350-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004291331040.7350-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:43:18 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > 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". What exactly do you mean here? Did you go into the partition editor, or did you start fdisk by some other means? > (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. I don't believe this is the way to do it. I've just installed FreeBSD 4.0 on an Inspiron 7500, and had no difficulties. But to get to the setup menu I had to press F2 during bootup, as described in the manual. I'd expect that the 5000 is similar. > (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. I don't know if you can. I had to get AcceleratedX. I have the 1400x1050 screen, but even without that I doubt it would work: XFree86 setup just hung the machine. I'm pretty sure that the 5000 has the same video hardware as the 7500. > (4) Is the Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 card supported in > 4.0? No. Work is in progress to get CardBus support into 5.0-CURRENT, but at the moment you're out of luck. You can't even put the cards in and not use them: I put in a 3Com CardBus card, and it crashed pccardd. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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