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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:44:59 +0100
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-N505X
Message-ID:  <3E35701B.3060303@liwing.de>
References:  <3E353655.2010703@liwing.de> <1043686884.1473.106.camel@vbook.fbsd.ru>

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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
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