From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 20:12:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB85137B416 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2406428B96; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:12:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:12:25 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: "Zac M. Speidel" Cc: Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD to Sony Vaio Laptop? Experts.. Please help =) In-Reply-To: <20020305015748.12971.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020304225651.B96680-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG {I had a question related to this inquiry; May I bounce in with it?} I am considering -- i.e. fantasizing, way down the road from now -- changing from a workstation (PC) to a laptop for my primary (sole) computer needs. Is there a simple way -- or any way -- what's the easiest, neatest procedure to transfer everything including the OS as I have tweaked it so far? I would rather not have to *install* a working copy of FreeBSD on the laptop then migrate data over. Is the best bet some sort of boot floppy then a "mv" command or disk-image- across-network ghosting sort of process? I could hook up the PC and the laptop via USB or something :) Any notions or stories from the trenches of anyone who has successfully done this appreciated. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Zac M. Speidel wrote: > Return-Path: > Received: from mail4.registeredsite.com (mail4.registeredsite.com > [64.224.9.13]) > by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F7A28B69 > for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:58:09 -0500 (EST) > Received: from mail.video2video.com (mail.video2video.com [209.35.10.22]) > by mail4.registeredsite.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id > g2512o212939 > for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:02:50 -0500 > Received: from mx2.freebsd.org [209.35.10.22] by mail.video2video.com > (SMTPD32-6.06) id A6301343010A; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:58:08 -0500 > Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) > by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP > id 784BD554F3; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:57:55 -0800 (PST) > (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) > Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) > id 8154037B41E; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:57:51 -0800 (PST) > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP > id 572402E800A; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:57:51 -0800 (PST) > Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Mon, > 4 Mar 2002 17:57:51 -0800 > Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Received: from web13007.mail.yahoo.com (web13007.mail.yahoo.com > [216.136.174.17]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2558037B41C > for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:57:49 -0800 (PST) > Message-ID: <20020305015748.12971.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> > Received: from [216.126.148.125] by web13007.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, > 04 Mar 2002 17:57:48 PST > Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:57:48 -0800 (PST) > From: "Zac M. Speidel" > Subject: Installing FreeBSD to Sony Vaio Laptop? Experts.. Please help =) > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="0-1058154561-1015293468=:12846" > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > List-ID: > List-Archive: (Web Archive) > List-Help: (List Instructions) > List-Subscribe: > > List-Unsubscribe: > > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Precedence: bulk > > > Hello everyone, > I just recently bought a Sony Vaio Laptop and it has been working great for me, except for one thing.. FreeBSD is not on it. > The Laptop is a PCG-GR300 1Ghz w/ builtin NIC and Modem (that could be a problem?). What about the mouse pad which is built in on the machine? etc?? I would really like to run both console and X11.. > Any information that you could give me at all would help greatly and I would be very thankful.. Please help :) > thanks, > -Zac Speidel (If you reply to this letter, can you please send an email directly to me? I currently dont subscribe to freebsd-questions) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message