Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:24:37 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Stan Osborne <stan@craigslist.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Mobile questions Message-ID: <200003242224.PAA10590@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003241342510.9134-100000@cnewmark.craigslist.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003241342510.9134-100000@cnewmark.craigslist.net>
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> My employer wants to provide me with an "IBM Thinkpad 600X-7EU". I'm not sure if everything is fully supported (yet) on the 'X' model. I think someone mentioned that X is now supported, but that sound might not be. > I would prefer to run FreeBSD on this as the primary OS, dual booted > with Win 98. So I have looked around some FreeBSD web sites and > on cdrom.com. I have several questions. If any of you have time > to answer these or provide other advice, it would be greatly > appreciated. > > o Is PAO 3.4-RELEASE available on bootable CDROM for a fee? Nope. Although, FreeBSD 4.0 (just released) has laptop support in the installation built-in. > o Is there anything particularly unique about installing > FreeBSD on an IBM Thinkpad? For FreeBSD < 4.0, yes. If you're installing 4.0, it should work out of the box. For older releases, you have to remove any memory over 64MB you have in the box, and then build a custom kernel with the exact amount of memory reported at bootup in the kernel, install the kernel, turn off and install the memory, and then boot the new system. > o Is there a favored boot loader for dual-boot configurations? The stock FreeBSD boot configuration works fine. > o When will there be a PAO 4.0-RELEASE? ???? Don't know, I think they're working on integrating it into the 4.X releases instead, but I may be out to lucnh Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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