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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 16:01:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        oli@rz-online.net (Oliver Andrich)
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Running FreeBSD on a Toshiba Satelite Pro 4270
Message-ID:  <200005302001.QAA88647@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000530192614.A3186@mail.rhein-zeitung.de> from Oliver Andrich at "May 30, 2000  7:26:14 pm"

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Well, I've installed FreeBSD and used it, with full-screen X, on a
variety of Satellites, including some of the newer ones.  I haven't
used that model, but I would guess it should run fine with some
tweaking.

Good luck!

==ml

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently deciding what type of OS I will run on my nice new laptop.
> Linux runs more or less fine, but the recent Linux distribution are very
> strange in the way they install the system. A lot of stuff is installed that I
> don't like or need. (Behaves a little bit like Windows in my eyes.) And it
> also only supports my graphics card through the rather slow FB device.
> 
> I personally would prefer to run FreeBSD 4.0 on it. The way FreeBSD installs
> is the way I like my system to install. I only get what I really want and
> need. But my first tries sucked, cause I only get the machine working in a
> small console window. No X and no frame buffer device either. 
> 
> So I like to ask, if anybody has tried it and hopefully succeded. My
> requirements are rather small. I only a full screen console window. X is no
> need for me, cause for my tasks it is sufficient to have a nice console. Is it
> possible to get this running under FreeBSD? I have searched the web and the
> available documentation, but didn't find any hint. 
> 
> Hopefully someone might help me.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Oliver Andrich
> 
> 
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