From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 8:19:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D2B37B404 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16j0bZ-0007Ht-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:18:57 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 9183B13040 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:18:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 6696D22597; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:18:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:18:55 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Compaq Presario 1700 (1714EA) .. any experience Message-ID: <20020307161855.GB4680@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Hello, Has anyone successfully got FreeBSD running on one of these ? I have one that has to be left dual bootable with Windows XP. Being a Compaq I think it has one of these "secret" partitions where Compaq keep BIOS information. Of particular interest it also has one of these ..cannot remember what they are called, but a slot on the side that can hold a CD/DVD drive or a Floppy Drive, and you can just willy nilly change them over as required (XP has some facility in it to safely turn off the device and then enable it again when you change from CD to Floppy say). Can FreeBSD handle this ? The technology that enables it I am clueless about. Also can BSD handle the touch pad/mouse thing - I believe it looks internally like some kind of PS/2 mouse. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message