From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 17:14:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7397E37B41B for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark2 (host217-35-38-124.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.38.124]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA24035; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:14:13 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <042c01c146e9$3847d300$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Bsd Newbie" , References: <20010926143412.84317.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell laptops... Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:12:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I remember there were a few posts about installing FreeBSD on the > Inspirion 800... but I don't recall anything about anyone's success. > > If anyone has done the install... was it pretty straightforward... or was > it riddled with problems? I'm planning to install off of the 4.4 iso's. Not had any problems with the basic install - just popped in the CD and booted to it no problems, install went as smooth as you would expect. I've not ventured into putting X or anything like that on though, so I wouldn't be able to help there. HTH, Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message