From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 9 15:58:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E277F106566B for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:58:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ptkrisada@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC148FC36 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:58:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ptkrisada@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f6so1867586rvb.43 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:58:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Yu9o2zwVGTPRqvAzCXzGZ84m/q9j6jbKk2OMMVvXl5Q=; b=Nrgii6TiSfEBrTTzt1rSXqLA1WPIcQCfH+n67+I6331kHuMbgKQewFjZtSQ1x9kEPJ wc6kYtH6YJHqIbSJh5LHECL52/HltOcNIga3gmu1d/PuplW0HLFBzSn1i8Qxxrt/x/uT ZxQ8p5TBtvt3WprngD1ENhNrtjU1ignw11vQE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=o/IghpdDh25zaHd1WZBZkCJAo9Yuf6QdXRAopna6RT3XazIUjjg/Pgr8lbtQfD9Nxc tWDGjeziFlm91g8zsC0OZsvo+olUQdSCgf8SQS3WB62DrJjpi2+w+9vY/aXuFDWzQ7pY tZFarPtvdu5x8XjapUZh5iVFnfiDK5obgKSl8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.100.15 with SMTP id c15mr3122993rvm.222.1236612901933; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:35:01 +0700 Message-ID: From: Pongthep Kulkrisada To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:58:32 -0000 Hi all, I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a new laptop (notebook). I have some questions. 1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial modem. The problem is new laptops do not provide COM port (/dev/cuad?). I must use internal modem built with the laptop. I'm not sure whether this internal modem can be found by FBSD 7.1R or not. If not, how to do? (Sorry I never used laptop.) 2. Previously, I used LILO boot manager (from Linux) for selecting FBSD, Linux or WinXP. But nowadays most of the time I use only FBSD and don't use Linux at all. So I don't want to waste the space installing linux on my new laptop. But I use XP occassionally. I need to know whether FBSD boot manager can select and boot XP or not? How to do it? I didn't find it in the handbook. Note that I know grub. But I really want to know the way, the system provide. Because I have a long story of this problem. Once (5 years ago) I installed FBSD success but without caution. I rebooted then I could not run the freshly installed system. Because there was no options for selecting the new system. :-( That time I ended up with LILO to fix the problem. But this time I just don't want to install Linux. So I want to use only what, the system provides. Thanks, Pongthep