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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>
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Subject: Re: Laptop and FreeBSD
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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


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