From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 12:11:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B9E16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from link.e-u-a.net (rrcs-midsouth-24-199-181-242.biz.rr.com [24.199.181.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6B043FDF for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: from Nomad (c-66-41-18-160.mn.client2.attbi.com [66.41.18.160]) by link.e-u-a.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hA2K0NiR027578 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:00:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) From: "Eric F Crist" To: Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 14:09:14 -0600 Message-ID: <007401c3a17d$30ae9e80$6601a8c0@Nomad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: Compaq Presario 2190us and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:11:30 -0000 Hello all, I just purchased a Compaq Presario 2190us and I've never installed FreeBSD on a laptop/portable computer. I initially formatted the HDD on here, but the disks I created for FreeBSD 5.1, from ISO about 4 months ago, kept giving me errors about different partitions being too large. This is only a 40GB HDD, and the one in my desktop system is 80GB. It also continuously failed on the newfs commands, so it was never able to format. The only thing it did manage to do was muck-up my boot sector. I've done some google searches, and I searched the FreeBSD.org website, but I have not seen anything about my problems. Can anyone tell me if there is a trick to this? Also, there's almost NO information about this laptop on Compaq/HP's website. Their tech support numbers can't even tell me what hardware is in here, even if I give them the serial number. Gah! TIA for you help, Eric Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (952) 403-9000 -------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.