Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:47:09 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop Message-ID: <1109432828.97801.2.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEIKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEIKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 05:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Do you just want a bigger disk? > > If so, then go for it - although if the disk is buried in the > laptop, it's worth it to pay someone else to install it as you > aren't going to have the tools to take it apart, nor are you going > to have the instructions on how to get it apart. > > Ted > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mike Jeays > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:13 PM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Toshiba Satellite laptop > > > > > > I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite > > laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad > > experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I need to keep the existing Windows configuration intact on the old disk, but would also like to try FreeBSD on this machine. The disk seems to be designed to be easily removed in this model - there are just two screws to undo, and it unplugs as a sealed unit. I took the old one out and put it back in with no trouble, and it still worked normally.
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