From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 11:22:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879EE37B423 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA246284; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:22:18 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <39D34AA6.CC5783B8@govital.net> References: <39D34AA6.CC5783B8@govital.net> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:22:17 -0400 To: Nathan Vidican , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed my laptop, (twice); Thinkpad A20m Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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