From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 03:38:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA17210 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from chow.cisco.com (chow.cisco.com [171.69.1.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA17205 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com (rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com [171.69.113.50]) by chow.cisco.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id DAA03305 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:37:41 -0800 Received: from rjohnson-home-ss20 ([127.0.0.1]) by rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com (8.6.8+c/CISCO.WS.1.1) with SMTP id DAA20054 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:37:40 -0800 Message-Id: <331C0983.41C67EA6@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 03:37:39 -0800 From: Richard Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD on an NEC Versa 6030X? X-Url: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm thinking about purchasing a NEC Versa 6030X notebook PC and running FreeBSD with X Windows on it. This system has a 1024x768 (XGA) TFT screen, a Pentium 133 processor, 1.44Gb disk, 16Mb memory (I would probably upgrade that to at least 32Mb). Are there any known problems with this type of setup? I figured I'd get the latest FreeBSD CDROM and boot/install directly from the internal CD drive onto disk. The system can handle two LiIon batteries at once so that should help a lot with power consumption, and I can always exchange the CDROM for another disk drive if I need more space for compiling programs for installation. Opinions? Things to look out for? Any input will be greatly appreciated. (I'm not on this mailing list so please reply directly to me. Thanks.) /raj