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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:00:18 -0400
From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>
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Subject: Booting FreeBSD-CURRENT off of a Firewire disk?
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Hi,

I recently bought a new laptop computer, a Winbook N3:

http://www.winbookcorp.com/support/n3/n3_support.html

I am interested in installing FreeBSD-CURRENT on this machine.
The hard drive can be pre-installed with Windows XP, and I don't want
to blow away that install, nor do I want to resize the partition.

The computer comes with a "Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Adapter".
Would I be able to buy an external Firewire hard disk and install a bootable
FreeBSD partition on that disk?  What is the state of Firewire support
under FreeBSD?

The computer also comes with the following hardware:
- Lucent Winmodem
- Accton EN2242 10/100 Ethernet adapter
- S3 Twister video card

Would I be able to use these under FreeBSD?

Thanks.
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Craig Rodrigues        
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rodrigc@attbi.com

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