From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 7 16:50:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail19b.rapidsite.net (mail19b.rapidsite.net [161.58.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E546D37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19b.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 045313189; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 19:56:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D014639.47553E2A@pythonemproject.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:48:09 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK References: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net> <20020606165642.GA26790@dub.net> <20020607194708.X1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 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 Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:56 -0700, Bill Swingle wrote: > > > > That was the fix I was looking for. Thanks! Now to figure out why I can > > boot from the cdrom but after booting, FreeBSD doesnt see it... > > It might be unrelated, but just out of curiousity: the gentoo FAQ > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/faq.html) has an entry "I have a Sony > Super-Slim VAIO laptop, and the Gentoo Linux CD is having problems > finding my PCMCIA ATAPI CD-ROM." in the "2. Installation" section. > Who knows how to translate the LILO / Linux kernel centric answer > to FreeBSD speak? This could be of help for some -mobile readers. > > BTW could gentoo's "portages" system be of interest for *BSD users, > too. This project doesn't look at all like the usual bloatware > desktop clicky Linux distro does but assumes an adult admin / user > instead. :) It thinks to be attractive for Debian, "Linux from > scratch" and *BSD users ... > > virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 > Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net > -- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message See the -chat archives for more Gentoo Linux related posts than you probably care to read. I'm sorry I started the thread :) Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message