From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 18:40:34 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 901D716A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freeman.4gh.net (washdc3-ar5-4-64-189-176.washdc3.elnk.dsl.genuity.net [4.64.189.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692CB43FD7 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuartb@4gh.net) Received: from localhost (stuartb@localhost) by freeman.4gh.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8L1eWWO035993; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:40:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from stuartb@4gh.net) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:40:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Barkley To: Timothy Luoma In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030920211056.T21556@freeman.4gh.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157? 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: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:40:34 -0000 On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 at 20:40 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: > One is a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the other is a Toshiba 1005-S157. > I know that folks have gotten FreeBSD to work on the Dell, but I > have not found much about FreeBSD and the Toshiba 1005-S157. I have a Toshiba 1005-S157 and am running FreeBSD 4.7 (currently, soon to upgrade to 4.8/4.9). After over a year using it, I'm still don't like it and wish I had purchased some other brand (but I'm not sure what). I really liked the Dell Latitude I had at my previous job and it ran FreeBSD quite well. I have a web page describing my Toshiba setup. There are some things you will need to deal with: http://www.4gh.net/hints/toshiba/satellite1005-s157.html > But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to > FreeBSD, and it has the faster processor. I assume I'll be running > WINE for a few Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile > faster = better, right? You might play around on with FreeBSD on the Toshiba first leaving your current Dell untouched. Once you have a little more experience you can try FreeBSD on the Dell. I've never tried Wine but I dual boot between FreeBSD (most of the time) and Windows (mostly for Quicken). On my Toshiba I have the disks partitioned as follows: % df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1 7.0G 5.4G 1.7G 76% /c /dev/ad0s5 2.0G 807M 1.2G 40% /e /dev/ad0s6 1.6G 490M 1.1G 31% /f /dev/ad0s3a 126M 45M 71M 39% / /dev/ad0s3e 252M 40M 192M 17% /var /dev/ad0s3f 252M 8.0K 232M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s3g 2.4G 2.1G 88M 96% /usr % swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s3b 490960 52 490908 0% Interleaved C: is NTFS mounted read_only for FreeBSD D: is the CD-ROM E:/F: FAT mounted read/write for exchange between windows and FreeBSD / /var /tmp /usr and swap are one partition used for FreeBSD I only have kernel sources installed on the Toshiba. I build ports on another machine and install the packages on the Toshiba. If you are planning a full source and ports installation disk space may be an issue using my partition scheme. Stuart Barkley -- I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never lost! -- Daniel Boone