Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Ben \"LuNaTiC\" Carlson" <carls107@curly.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161519260.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980716111526.1302A-100000@curly>
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Ben "LuNaTiC" Carlson wrote: > I think I've read through most of the documentation for Free BSD, I have > a couple of questions regarding Laptops and FreeBSD. I just bought a > FUJITSU 735DX P133 MMX w/cd & 56k modem. It only has a 1.6 gig hard drive > on it and I wanted to keep win95 on it, I can add another harddrive to one > of the bays and I thought I could partion that out into a win95 partion > and a freebsd partion. Would I need a special boot up disk to boot up > Freebsd? Is my laptop compatiable with FreeBSD? Do have any > recommendations on how to install both OS's ? Split the Windows partition and install FreeBSD in the half you created. Check out the FIPS utility. > Also just picked up a 3com 574 lan(ethernet) for the laptop, although I > didn't see it on your list of supposrt ethernet cards it looks like it > could work since you list quite a few 3 com ethernet cards. Will the 3 > com ethernet card work? not the 574. The 3c589 should work fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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