Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:21:22 -0000 From: stuart@bh90210.net To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: I8K + FreeBSD (4.3): newbie questions Message-ID: <9jfqm2%2B4gl8@eGroups.com>
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Listmembers: okay, I am sure some of these questions are in the manual, and I am trying to find a pdf version of the handbook. However, I am also looking for personal experience and caveats, so please, dont just say read the manual. Hardware: Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop 1600x1200 LCD, ATI M4 Card, 512MB of RAM, 32GB HD, LS120, CD-RW/DVD 1394, Actiontec 56K modem (built in), Intel Ethernet (builtin) a) How do I mount a floppy disk in FreeBSD? b) Where do kernel configuration files go? c) How do I build a new kernel? d) What filesystems does FreeBSD honor? Ext2? ReiserFS? Ext3? e) I cant get "X11" to come up at all, what should /usr/X11R6/bin/X be symbolically linked to for an ATI M4 card? f) once I do that, any other things to check (other than using a good XF86config file)? g) I tried xf86setup and such, got nowhere being clueless what choices to accept! I am very excited about getting FreeBSD working on my I8K, as I just copied all my files from my SunOS 4.1.4 machine to Linux (for preservational purposes), and hope to get FreeBSD up as a replacement. Incidently, I am curious how well (or if at all) FreeBSD performs on a SPARC machine? Dont laugh....But, what if I had: An IPC - right now with 12MB, but I plan to get (if I can find them) 12 4MB SIMMS (32 pin!), and pump it up to 48MB. I also have a SPARC 2, which I might use instead of the IPC (thus needing more 4MB SIMMS). I want to run a current and mainted OS on it, and I am not so partial to SuSE Linux, and RH has basically dropped support for RH Sparc. Besides, I think it ought to be a law that SPARC 2s ought not run anything but a BSD based OS!?! Of course I do live in California, so hopefully the ram will be locatable. Does anyone know of a controller board that will convert an IDE drive to be used with SCSI? I heard someone had one. Any advice will be well appreciated. Thank you all in advance. Stuart Beverly Hills, Ca USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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