Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:51:49 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: "E. Romeo" <romeo@acheloos.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a laptop Compaq Message-ID: <20010602115148.A19798@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org> References: <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org>
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:34:45AM +0200, E. Romeo wrote: > Good morning, > > I'd soon wish to install the last version of FreeBSD on a laptop Compaq > Armada E500. I didn't still decide what hardware options to take (I suppose > 10 Gb Hard disk, 256 Kb Cache, Pentium III 600 Mhz, 64 Mb RAM, XGA TFT, > multibay extension). > > I'd like just to know whether it is possible to install FreeBSD on such a > machine to configure it as a work station. Are there particular troubles > for the installation ? If someone know that problem and could give me some > warning, I'd be very grateful . > > Thank you > I had an E500 last year with 4.0-RELEASE loaded. It worked well except for the windmodem. If you're going to run X, I'd go for 128MB RAM. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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