From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 06:25:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23443 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 06:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23437 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 06:25:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-161.laker.net [208.0.233.61]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id JAA07535; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:25:32 -0400 Message-Id: <199809101325.JAA07535@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Seamus Phan" Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:20:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Can freeBSD work on PC notebooks? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:55:33 +0800, Seamus Phan wrote: >I'd like to learn more about freeBSD. I have Pentium 75 MHz and 486 PC notebooks >that are lying around. Thought I can run freeBSD on them. Any chance they will >work? Pls kindly advise. Your advice is much appreciated. Sure, there's a chance, but we have no way of determining how great that chance is 8o) Just download a boot floppy and boot it (see www.freebsd.org). The boot floppy has a GENERIC kernel that will probe for many devices, and if it finds the devices you have, you're in good shape. If you have no experience with freebsd, please, please, please buy "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. It contains valuable info and will answer questions that will anger the people on this list. After all, they read man pages, FAQs, and the handbook available at www.freebsd.org, so why shouldn't you 8o) And if the stuff you read doesn't make sense even after you've read it a few times, and tried a few things, drop us a note here and we'll be glad to help anyone who has put forth an effort to learn... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message