From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 01:52:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA15713 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 01:52:42 -0700 Received: from relay1.oleane.net (Relay1.OLEANE.NET [194.2.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA15706 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 01:52:39 -0700 Received: from ocegr.fr (hydra.dtsmtp.ocegr.fr [194.2.64.3]) by relay1.oleane.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA12380 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:52:30 +0200 Received: from pyxis by ocegr.fr (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA24251; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:40:11 +0200 Message-Id: <9506120840.AA24251@ocegr.fr> To: questions@freebsd.org From: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr Reply-To: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr Subject: How to install 2.0.5(-ALPHA) on a ThinkPad ? Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:40:11 +0200 content-length: 0 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, this weekend, I installed 2.0.5-ALPHA on a no-name desktop system. It is running fine, no problems whatsoever. Nice work guys! I also wanted to upgrade my ThinkPad to 2.0.5-ALPHA. ThinkPads are a bit special since the keyboard is a ps/2 one, which means that the standard boot.flp/sysinstall won't work, the keyboard generates 'garbage'. Until now, I just compiled a kernel with pcvt and PCVT_SCANSET=2, and stuck it on the boot.flp. But this doesn't work anymore now that the 2.0.5A install uses a boot.flp with a compressed kernel and an embedded filesystem. I looked at the makefiles in /usr/src/release, but it seems to require a full srcdist, and I don't have enough room for that. Can someone compile such a kernel for me, or would it be possible to make a modified boot.flp available on freebsd.org (and/or on the 2.0.5R CD) ? With a small patch, pcvt would be able to recognise the ThinkPad keyboard automatically; would be nice to have it on the standard boot.flp for future releases (Jordan ?) Gert-Jan PS: one other thing: I put the distribs one after the other on a single tape, assuming/hoping that the install would use nrst0, or at least allow me to specify the device to use. It didn't :-( Would be nice to have that possibility in a future version of the install) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.G. Vons, Oce engineering Creteil, France | E-mail: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr