From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 5 3:19:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mime5.datastream.com (mime5.datastream.com [159.104.154.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F5637B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 03:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rob.Craig@tfeurope.com) Received: from pmkgbbrmhs3.datastream.com (pmkgbbrmhs3.datastream.com) by mime5.datastream.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:16:50 +0100 Received: by pmkgbbrmhs3.datastream.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3JNSBQ4B>; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:13:22 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Craig, Rob" To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: !! Does FreeBSD run on a Dell Notebook !! Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:13:30 +0100 Importance: high X-Priority: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative ; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C1053B.23A54E90" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1053B.23A54E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Afternoon, =20 I would like to switch from Redhat Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is giving my grief. I have an old notebook I would like to install it on. Can you tell me if anyone has tested it or it runs fine? =20 Dell Latitude XPi P133ST NeoMagic 2070 Graphics Card 1Mb Panasonic KXL-DL40 SCSI external CDROM (PCMCIA) 3Com 3CCFE575CD-D PCMCIA Network Card =20 Notebooks are troublesome with anything but I am not sure if Free BSD has all the drivers? =20 Thanks, =20 ROB =20 =20 Rob Craig Spain & Portugal Technical=20 =20 Thomson Financial Calle Maldonado 31, 1B 28006 Madrid, Espa=F1a. =20 Tel : +34 91 745 2028 Fax: +34 91 745 2021 Email: rob.craig@tfeurope.com .oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo. =20 =20 "This communication is intended solely for the addressee and is confidentia= l and not for third party unauthorised distribution." ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1053B.23A54E90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Afternoon,

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I would like to switch from Redhat Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is giving= my grief. I have an old notebook I would like to install it on. Can you tell m= e if anyone has tested it or it runs fine?

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Dell Latitude XPi P133ST

NeoMagic 2070 Graphics Card 1Mb

Panasonic KXL-DL40 SCSI external CDROM (PCMCIA)

3Com 3CCFE575CD-D PCMCIA Network Card

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Notebooks are troublesome with anything but I am not sure if Free BSD has all the drivers?

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Thanks,

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ROB

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Rob Craig

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Calle Maldonado 31, 1B

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Tel :           &nbs= p; +34 91 745 2028

Fax:           &nbs= p; +34 91 745 2021

Email:          rob.craig@tfeurope.com

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