From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 2 11:38:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB3037B424 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cschindl@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18291; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA09786; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (cschindl@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09782; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:38:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: cschindl owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:38:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "c. schindler" To: "E. Romeo" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a laptop Compaq In-Reply-To: <20010602113445.A812@jethro.acheloos.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 hello u can check these websites to see if your notebook computer is compatible. http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html these are good sites and contain up to date listings of all notbook computers that are compatible for freebsd. -------------------- Chris Schindler University of Maryland e-mail: cschindl@wam.umd.edu tel: 301-982-9368 AIM screen name: carbonx4 "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -Abraham Lincoln On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, 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 > > -- > Emmanuel Romeo, 605 chemin bas de Roulan, 30000 Nimes, France > tel/fax : 04 66 21 35 42, e-mail: romeo@acheloos.org, romeo@e-math.ams.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message