From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 8 12:49: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from relay20.smtp.psi.net (relay20.smtp.psi.net [38.8.20.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F5537B53B for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pgatz@tiac.net) Received: from [205.161.57.120] (helo=tiac.net) by relay20.smtp.psi.net with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 12SnNy-0007XI-00; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: <38C6BBA2.FACF967C@tiac.net> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:44:19 -0500 From: Peter G Organization: Ethernet Solns R&C X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: tom brown , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is the PAO install always this hard? References: <23541.952546874@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've installed FBSD PAO 3.3 & 3.4 successfully on over a dozen laptops. All were either IBM TP 760ED or 770 series. What I have come up w/ is 2 rules of thumb to make life easier 1.) Keep the memory to 32MB or so during the install, then add the addl' memory chips later as desired. 2.) Put ALL the install dirs (except the packages) along with the PAOBIN dir right ON the HD that you'll be installing onto, on the same machine and pick "install from an existing file system". This can be a DOS partition upfront or whatever. Remember that a small DOS partition up front is desirable to be able to run those utilities to set up say your 3COM PCMCIA NIC to the right IRQ, or flash your BIOS etc. Should you wish you can also include the latest XF86 dir as well. (XF86336 right now) Also I assume you're booting off of the PAO 3.4 boot floppy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message