Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:22:17 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@govital.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed my laptop, (twice); Thinkpad A20m Message-ID: <v04210107b5f9348a558f@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <39D34AA6.CC5783B8@govital.net> References: <39D34AA6.CC5783B8@govital.net>
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At 9:41 AM -0400 9/28/00, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Has anyone got FreeBSD running, successfully on an >IBM ThinkPad A20M, (24U - PII 500/128megs Ram/6Gig HD) ? >I have attempted to install twice now, both times have >resulted in my having to replace the hardisk with a >new one from IBM. > Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise would >be greatly appreciated at this point. I don't think it'd be >something with FreeBSD, but just in case, should I try to >install a different version maybe? (was trying to install >FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE-20000924 I believe, or round the 24th's >snapshot anyhow). See a recent thread in this mailing list which talked about problems with IBM's ThinkPad T20. I think there was some indication that the ThinkPad expected the first partition to be either windows or linux. I didn't follow that thread too closely, but one thing you might want to do is set the laptop up as dual-boot. You've already paid for Windows, so make that the first system on a small-ish (1-gig?) partition. Then install freebsd on the rest of the drive. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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