Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 08:58:26 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad 750 Message-ID: <382E6BA2.83A1BF48@cybercable.fr> References: <19991113210357.A20018@massve.geek.edu>
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Jonathan Towne wrote:
>
> I've got a Thinkpad 750, 2 pc card slots, no cdrom, only a mere
> 486SL/33 CPU, and 8meg of RAM, and i'm trying to install a copy*
^^^^
There was a time where you had to have at least 12 megs of RAM to
install FreeBSD. You may check the errata and release notes for 3.3 to
find out if you can install with only 8 megs.
TfH
> of 3.3-RELEASE on it to replace win3.11. Since the thinkpad
> uses an odd keyboard of some sort, i give syscons the 0x2 flag,
> which fixed the keyboard one time (the only time i got it to
> boot correctly). Anyways, i've tried the standard installation
> floppies, and the pccard floppies, neither would get past the
> "Probing devices, please wait (...)" dialog, it just hangs there,
> and will not accept any keyboard commands or anything like that.
> This problem previously happened to me on a set of installation
> floppies that didn't have FPU emulation in the kernel on my
> 486sx/25, but, 3.3-RELEASE is supposed to have it, so, I'm sure
> that can't be the problem, any answers would be greatly
> appreciated.. :)
>
> --
> Jonathan Towne jontow@massive.geek.edu/wrongway@slic.com
> Systems Administrator http://massive.geek.edu/
>
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