Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:50:51 -0700 From: Peter Buckingham <pbuckingham@Lnxw.COM> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD and HP Pavilion computers Message-ID: <3D5ADECB.6060505@lnxw.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208141456500.22277-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Hi Julian, Julian Elischer wrote: > did you get CDs? it had the recovery cds. > I was going to try reinstall the Windows in a virtual partition > for VMware but as they give you a the software distribution > in a "recovery partition" on the disk instead of on CDs > that becomes hard(er). i remember have some difficulties because the recovery cds try to take the whole partition. with partition magic i think that i hid the end partition and everything was okay. > Also whan IO put on the BSD boot manager it booted directly to 'recovery > mode' instead of to BSD. It then wanted to > recreate the original (BIG) ntfs partition instead of > living with the BSD partiton and smaller ntfs partition I replaced > it with.. I'm still experimenting with it though.. not sure about this, it was a while ago since i did it. > also any idea what type the ethernet card is.. BSD 4.4 didn't see it > that's for sure.. mine was a wierd version of realtek, i haven't managed to get it working yet. it detects it but then has problems so it doesn't quite load. i am currently having problems with it detecting my modem. i have an actiontec pci modem which has it's id listed in the pci_ids, pciconf -lv lists it, but it is not detected as an sio on boot :-( this modem is detected and runs fine under linux and windows on the exact same pc. i am trying to upgrade to current to see whether this helps... i can give you more details when i get home. peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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