From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 03:41:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45AF337B401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 03:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stinky.trash.net (stinky.trash.net [195.134.144.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 841DD43F75 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 03:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdlist@kess.ch) Received: by stinky.trash.net (Postfix, from userid 1918) id 5BAA994AAE; Fri, 2 May 2003 12:41:42 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:41:42 +0200 From: Wolfgang Kess To: Hajimu UMEMOTO Message-ID: <20030502104142.GA2590@stinky.trash.net> References: <20030429151005.GA16318@stinky.trash.net> <20030429194517.GA17641@stinky.trash.net> <20030430235732.GA28773@stinky.trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Priority: normal cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JVC MP-XP7250 mini laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 10:41:45 -0000 Hello, >> What was your favorite installation media type? A attached USB cdrom or fd? > > My installation was somewhat irregular way. I installed FreeBSD with > PC-CARD CDROM which is the option of 7210. Though sysinstall could be > booted from CDROM, the CDROM was not recognized from FreeBSD. So, > after boot, I installed FreeBSD by FTP. > I bought USB FDD after installing FreeBSD. Since USB FDD is > recognized, I think you can install FreeBSD by USD FDD. > I heared that a friend of mine installed FreeBSD into 7210 by PXE > boot. I found this nice howto http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml do the PXE netboot. Did you dispose the WinXP and recovery partition? Wolfgang