From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 2 9:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out5.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out5.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.2.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0EC37B424 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpoland@execpc.com) Received: from earth.execpc.com (dpoland@earth.execpc.com [169.207.16.1]) by out5.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f52GpnZ54372; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:51:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dpoland@localhost) by earth.execpc.com (8.9.0) id LAA20296; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:51:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:51:49 -0500 From: Doug Poland To: "E. Romeo" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a laptop Compaq Message-ID: <20010602115148.A19798@polands.org> Mail-Followup-To: "E. Romeo" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us In-Reply-To: <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org> 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 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