From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun May 30 21: 0:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A0B14EB0 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 21:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA07733; Sun, 30 May 1999 20:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 20:52:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Michael Haro Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony VAIO C1 Picturebook In-Reply-To: <19990530154040.A60549@area51.fremont.ca.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm talking about the C1 in comparison to the 505. The screen is fine with me. I just can't figure out how to install FreeBSD on it, since I can't boot floppies (usb floppy is not yet supported). A parallel port usb is supported and I could connect to another machine that way, but I still can't boot install floppies. And FBSDBOOT.EXE is according to -current messages (if I can summarize to the best of what I can gather from the slew of messages) not usable with elf. I could, I suppose, try an old (say, 3.1) cd and try to use install.bat and/or FBSDBOOT.exe. Otherwise, I don't know. Try to boot an image from the hard drive while in Win98? Annelise The C1 PictureBook is C1/X; the Japanese version is C1/R. A C1/S is now available in Japan and has a 6.4Gb hard drive and improvements in the photo stuff. (The PictureBook has a built-in camera; screen is 8.9" wide and 1024x480, anyway it looks okay to me.) On Sun, 30 May 1999, Michael Haro wrote: > Are you talking about the C1 or the 505? I have the 505TX and > it doesn't use USB for floppy or parallel. It has another connection > which is transparent to fbsd. The TX can do 1024x768, which is fine > for my eyes, but some older people think that everything is too small > for them. The TS does 800x600, which is too big for me but others seem > to like it. I don't know about the older 505 models, but I have no > complaints with mine so far. I just wish the pcmcia network card I > have was supported, but that isn't an issue with the laptop. > > Michael > > On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:41:39PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with one of these? > > > > The compromise with the Sony VAIO 505 is a smaller > > keyboard and screen, a 266 MHZ processor, and a mere 4.3Gb > > hard drive. But it weighs only 2.5 pounds, and it has a > > trackpoint-type pointing device instead of a touchpad. It > > depends on a USB port for the floppy drive and parallel > > stuff. I find it very appealing. > > > > Annelise > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message