From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 11:39:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07219 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA07209 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:39:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA28480 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:36:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04269; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:38:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:38:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ira Feldman cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM edition of FREEBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Ira Feldman wrote: > Please confirm if the cdrom edition of FREEBSD will install onto an IBM > THINKPAD from ab inter-changeable CD-ROM drive or any LINUX > CD_ROM distribution that you know of. > Thanks for you help... Couple of potential gotchas: 1. At one point, some ThinkPads were having trouble with the system console such that the keyboard wouldn't work. I don't know if this afflicts the boot floppy or not. When you rebuild the kernel you can add an option to enable special handling of the ThinkPad keyboard. I don't have specifics on this, sorry, you'd have to try it and see if it's a problem. 2. FreeBSD's installer expects the CDROM to be in the machine at boot time. If this is a floppy-or-CDROM situation you won't be able to load from CDROM since you must start up from a floppy. The next best would be a network install from a local machine or from ftp.freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major