From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 27 9:43:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7351737B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C1643E4A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 42390 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 17:43:53 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jan 2003 17:43:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3E35701B.3060303@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:44:59 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" Cc: freebsd-mobile Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-N505X References: <3E353655.2010703@liwing.de> <1043686884.1473.106.camel@vbook.fbsd.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: > χ Mon, 27.01.2003, Χ 16:38, Jens Rehsack ΞΑΠΙΣΑΜ: > >>Hi, >> >>does anyone has expirience how I could get a FreeBSD 5.0 installed on a >>Sony Vaio PCG-N505X? This machine has it's cdrom attached through a >>pccard. My problem is, that the floppy drive has a physical defect which >>causes in disk salad everytime I access a floppy with it, so I must boot >>from cdrom. >> >>Can I plug off the cdrom after boot and attach an ethernet card? Or do I >>have to create an own bootable cd, and what did I have to build into the >>kernel? > > > You have options: > - get native SONY PCMCI cd-drive and boot and install from it I have such a one. But the pccard-driver didn't like it :-( I will take the first option: I took the harddrive out of it and install on another machine and put the disk back after that. Thanks for the hints, Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstra?e 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message