From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 06:19:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA23854 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:19:16 -0700 Received: from relay1.oleane.net (Relay1.OLEANE.NET [194.2.1.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23843 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:19:12 -0700 Received: from ocegr.fr (hydra.dtsmtp.ocegr.fr [194.2.64.3]) by relay1.oleane.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA19997; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:19:06 +0200 Received: from apus by ocegr.fr (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA22441; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:20:59 +0200 Message-Id: <9508161320.AA22441@ocegr.fr> To: "Jeff Wilson" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 360CE In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:52:13 CDT." From: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr Reply-To: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:20:57 +0200 content-length: 1269 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk |My biggest problem turned out |to be replacing the kernel in the bin.tgz with the kernel that I had built. |It's a simple tar operation, but I had to find about 40 meg of free disk space |to work with the file! Another way to do this is to simply install the original bin-dist, and to install a fake one (only containing the modified kernel) afterwards. It will simply overwrite the kernel from the original bin-dist. |Now, what I would like to know is: are scancode 2 keyboards going to be |supported in 2.1, or will I have to go through this all again when I upgrade? I went through this with 2.0 and 2.0.5 :-( I know that pcvt is able to detect the keyboard type automatically, so in theory, it should be possible to have a boot-floppy and a bin-dist that both use pcvt, and work on all(?) systems. Unless there is a specific reason why pcvt can't replace the syscons driver of course... |Jeff Wilson |amazed to be running a great UNIX system on a little laptop with 4 meg of RAM! Wait until you get some more RAM in there, I went from 4 to 12MB, and that sure makes a big difference! Gert-Jan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.G. Vons, Oce engineering Creteil, France | E-mail: Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr