From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 11:08:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08375 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08368 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:08:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA22023; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:08:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:08:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Richard Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an NEC Versa 6030X? In-Reply-To: <331C0983.41C67EA6@cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Johnson wrote: > 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? What video chips? > 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. Can you mount the CDROM and floppies simultaneously? if you can't you can't install from CDROM, you'll have to use network or floppies. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major