Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:53:02 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: Katherina Law <law@deepthought.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Newbie on FreeBSD installation. Message-ID: <19971121005302.9227.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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PAO is FreeBSD support package for PCMCIA/PC Cards. I finally found where it is through the archive, thanks to Doug of course, it's at http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO Hopefully he'll step in and give the lowdown on the megahertz cards too. On the FTP install I cannot really coment since I did my install from the DOS partition. And I guess all I can say is it worked :-) Let us know if you stumble again. ---Katherina Law <law@deepthought.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rudy Gireyev [SMTP:rgireyev@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 1997 9:41 AM > To: Katherina Law; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Newbie on FreeBSD installation. > > > Installing FreeBSD on an IBM ThinkPad 560 is totally doable. > You will need a PAO package, which I admitedly forget is where. > > Thank you for your quick response! What is a PAO package? > > What is the best way to partition it? > > That of course is up to you. If we were completely impartial > then we > would of course recommend 50/50 but since we are not we > recommend > giving FreeBSD as much room as possible :-) > Although, you will need around 300M for nice text based install. > > 50/50 for Win95 and > > FreeBSD? I didn't see the Megahertz card oin the compatiblity > list, > do > > you think that is OK? > > Do you plan to use FreeBSD on a network? > > It will be nice to be able to get it on the network, even for > the installation of it would be nice. > > When I tried to install it, there is a few of > > (Confl) something similar to that, I am not sure about the > wording > now, > > but does that mean conflict? I am new to FreeBSD, can you > help me > with > > some advises? > > Hmmmm, this doesn't sound very clear. If you could send perhaps > a more > detailed description of what exactly you downloaded, steps you > took to > install and the messages you got. Otherwise, it's too hard to > guess :-) > > I understand now as I am doing it, it was for me to remove the > drives/devices that I don't have in one of the installation screen. > I am been installing it all day long now, it's not as easy as it > seems. Maybe I am not doing everything right. I tried to install it > through ftp, and I happened to have an IBM pcmcia ethernet card that I > can use for now. But it hangs a couple of time either half way through, > or sometimes when it started. Quite a lot of work.. I am doing it now, > maybe if it'd fail again, I've better copy everything to the DOS > partition and install it from there... > > Thanks again!! > Katherina > > Sent by Yahoo! Mail. Get your free e-mail at > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________________________ Sent by Yahoo! Mail. Get your free e-mail at http://mail.yahoo.com
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