From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 12 19:34:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A557737B7D6; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@worldly.org) Received: from worldly.org (ip61.salt-lake-city18.ut.pub-ip.psi.net [38.36.16.61]) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06737; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39459DD5.4F910D35@worldly.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:35:05 -0600 From: James Diefenderfer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: Joe Warner , Jerry Dunham , cal@rushe.aero.org, Greg Lehey , Wes Peters , Michael Smith , Sue Blake , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still No FreeBSD References: <200006100634.XAA15122@calamari.aero.org> <20000610202611.H22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942F563.9613BCE7@worldly.org> <20000610212117.N22659@rider.dunham.org> <3942FA1C.68246759@worldly.org> <20000610213641.P22659@rider.dunham.org> <3943EB0B.CB3B <061b01bfd4dc$b7aee7d0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i asked, several people on this eMail list, and read ALOT before i thought about trying to install FreeBSD on this Dell Latitude LM. Several people told me they had it working with no problem and several "Hardware list" listed this laptop as one that could handle FreeBSD ! Doug Young wrote: > Weird isn't ?? ...... I think its probably best that newbies avoid > proprietory hardware generally- I agree but sometimes, when you're first > starting out, it's hard to know you've got proprietory hardware until you've > already pounded your head against a wall and pulled your hair out for a > week. -- James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message