Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:43:35 -0400 From: "Gunther, Dean (Dean)" <dgunther@lucent.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop Message-ID: <B99995113B318D44BBE87DC50092EDA908D46577@nj7460exch006u.ho.lucent.com>
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I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out how to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have a BackPack CD-ROM drive (parallel port connection) that I use with the laptop, but I was unable to find any information on whether or not I could get it to work to install FreeBSD. I created the boot floppies and was able to get the install shell going but without any access to the install files I was at a loss how to proceed. I guess if I really wanted to I could try a floppy install, but I was hoping for something a little quicker. At home I have a cable modem and a linksys NAT box providing internet access so ftp does not sound like a bad way to go, but I wasn't able to figure out how to get the system to recognize the PCMCIA card. If there is a way to use the BP CD-ROM that would be even better, but again I couldn't find any reference to backpack's or even parallel drives so that has not been a fruitful avenue to look down. I am still kind of new to FreeBSD and UNIX, but I am trying to learn. I thought that installing FreeBSD on my old laptop would be a way to keep it somewhat useful if only for web-surfing and/ or playing around with some scripting work I would like to try to do. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dean M. Gunther Q-Agent Lucent LWS dgunther@lucent.com
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