From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 9 18:28:37 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 5A2551065688 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg.stark@sungard.com) Received: from VA3EHSOBE006.bigfish.com (va3ehsobe005.messaging.microsoft.com [216.32.180.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED4D8FC08 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg.stark@sungard.com) Received: from mail82-va3-R.bigfish.com (10.7.14.241) by VA3EHSOBE006.bigfish.com (10.7.40.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.340.0; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:13:32 +0000 Received: from mail82-va3 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail82-va3-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4587278185; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:13:31 +0000 (UTC) X-BigFish: VPS-29(zz542N14ffO4015M936fK9371Pzzzzz2dh6bh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-FB-SS: 5, Received: by mail82-va3 (MessageSwitch) id 1236622410115746_3344; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:13:30 +0000 (UCT) Received: from us-voo-smtp04.internal.sungard.corp (unknown [216.83.166.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail82-va3.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155501C38046; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from us-voo-smtp12.internal.sungard.corp ([168.162.128.54]) by us-voo-smtp04.internal.sungard.corp with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:13:29 -0400 Received: from VOO-EXCHANGE05.internal.sungard.corp ([168.162.128.66]) by us-voo-smtp12.internal.sungard.corp with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:13:29 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:13:28 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop Thread-Index: Acmg0BAlYI9n6TSOQriaXtgp3rhhEwAEloxw References: From: To: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2009 18:13:29.0707 (UTC) FILETIME=[BFC34BB0:01C9A0E2] Cc: Subject: RE: 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 18:28:37 -0000 Some laptops do come with COM ports still. Usually they are the business models. For example, the Dell Latitude 820's have them. =20 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pongthep Kulkrisada Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:35 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"