From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 17:17: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8E537B42C for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e830Gcg90037; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jim Mock <jim@jmock.com> Cc: grownup@iname.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Laptops Message-ID: <20000903094638.C66079@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39B0A1F1.F73E661A@donet.com> <20000902005017.A39234@envy.geekhouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000902005017.A39234@envy.geekhouse.net>; from jim@jmock.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:50:18AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 2 September 2000 at 0:50:18 -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 at 02:45:05 -0400, GMan wrote: >> I know that Linux has a website that identifies how to install on >> laptops. Same for FreeBSD? I had Red Hat (up to version 6.0) running >> on my Gateway Pentium-120 for over a year (had to go back to Win98 for >> new job compatibility - not enough space for dual-boot system). >> >> Would be interested in trying FreeBSD. . . will probably get a desktop >> for Windows stuff and use the laptop as the "experimental" machine. . . >> any suggestions for web sites with good documentation on laptop >> installs??? > > You don't need to do anything different during the install. It's just > like installing on a desktop system (at least it has been with the few > laptops I've run it on). There are a couple of minor differences. What if you want to install via a PCMCIA CD-ROM, for example? But that should be covered in the installation menus. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message