Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:30:07 -0700 From: "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net> To: stuart@bh90210.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I8K + FreeBSD (4.3): newbie questions Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010722172538.03b07268@mail.blarg.net> In-Reply-To: <9jfqm2%2B4gl8@eGroups.com>
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a) man mount, or if you know mount, I believe it is fdc0 b&c) Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ chapters 8 & 20 VERY thoroughly, and then read it again before you even attempt to rebuild your kernel. d) UFS e) X is a pain to setup on that laptop... my X and kernel configs are here: <http://defcon.fatburrito.com/DELL-I8000/>; f&g) I'll pass on those. I'm a newbie to freeBSD too. And I'll pass on the sparc stuff. Derek At 05:21 PM 7/22/2001, stuart@bh90210.net wrote: >Listmembers: > >okay, I am sure some of these questions are in the manual, and I am >trying to find a pdf version of the handbook. > >However, I am also looking for personal experience and caveats, so >please, dont just say read the manual. > >Hardware: > >Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop >1600x1200 LCD, ATI M4 Card, 512MB of RAM, 32GB HD, LS120, CD-RW/DVD >1394, Actiontec 56K modem (built in), Intel Ethernet (builtin) > >a) How do I mount a floppy disk in FreeBSD? >b) Where do kernel configuration files go? >c) How do I build a new kernel? >d) What filesystems does FreeBSD honor? Ext2? ReiserFS? Ext3? >e) I cant get "X11" to come up at all, what should /usr/X11R6/bin/X >be symbolically linked to for an ATI M4 card? >f) once I do that, any other things to check (other than using a good >XF86config file)? >g) I tried xf86setup and such, got nowhere being clueless what >choices to accept! > >I am very excited about getting FreeBSD working on my I8K, as I just >copied all my files from my SunOS 4.1.4 machine to Linux (for >preservational purposes), and hope to get FreeBSD up as a replacement. > >Incidently, I am curious how well (or if at all) FreeBSD performs on >a SPARC machine? > >Dont laugh....But, what if I had: > >An IPC - right now with 12MB, but I plan to get (if I can find them) >12 4MB SIMMS (32 pin!), and pump it up to 48MB. I also have a SPARC >2, which I might use instead of the IPC (thus needing more 4MB >SIMMS). I want to run a current and mainted OS on it, and I am not so >partial to SuSE Linux, and RH has basically dropped support for RH >Sparc. Besides, I think it ought to be a law that SPARC 2s ought not >run anything but a BSD based OS!?! > >Of course I do live in California, so hopefully the ram will be >locatable. > >Does anyone know of a controller board that will convert an IDE drive >to be used with SCSI? I heard someone had one. > >Any advice will be well appreciated. Thank you all in advance. > >Stuart >Beverly Hills, Ca >USA > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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