From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 21:00:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4157A16A59B for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlas.cc.uregina.ca (ATLAS.CC.UREGINA.CA [142.3.100.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8720D43D49 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forres3j@uregina.ca) Received: from wybnsk03d010101108.sk.sympatico.ca (wybnsk03d010101108.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.98.108]) by atlas.cc.uregina.ca (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0650Phw025616 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:00:26 -0600 (CST) From: jared forrester To: Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:04:08 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <000501c3d3ec$96a898c0$86932d50@HP25268139141> In-Reply-To: <000501c3d3ec$96a898c0$86932d50@HP25268139141> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401052304.08194.forres3j@uregina.ca> Subject: Re: [PMX:#] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 05:00:30 -0000 On January 5, 2004 06:32 pm, John Maclean wrote: > Sirs, > > I have read our site http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html as I am > interested in learning C on a UNIX type platform. Could you tell me please > if FreeBsd would run on a Athlon Xp based laptop? > > Regards, > > John Maclean > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Well, the short answer would be perhaps. The long answer is that it rely depends on what hardware exactly makes up the laptop and how much of it you need to work. You should start by making an inventory of everything it contains (what type of IDE controller?, sound card type, etc) as well as your IRQ settings (probably not necessary but it can't hurt). Next you should read the freebsd handbook located at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html It details what hardware is supported etc. As far as laptops go, you will have some trouble with cardbus (it's supported in the 5.x series but not in 4.x last I checked). It's unlikely that FreeBSD will not run at all, but if anything some of your hardware will not work 100%. I used to run FreeBSD 4.8 on a compaq armada 7400 but it did not support the triflex ide controller (though the generic driver did work just without udma-33), the usb controller (not at all), nor the cardbus slots (though they did work as 16 bit pcmcia slots and I could use a linksys 10/100 nic). However freeBSD did still run. I hope that helps Jared.