From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 27 9: 8:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from info.isinet.com (mail2.isinet.com [199.4.155.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F9C815181 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:07:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aturoff@isinet.com) Received: (qmail 22120 invoked from network); 27 May 1999 16:02:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO isinet.com) (aturoff@10.10.10.221) by info.isinet.com with SMTP; 27 May 1999 16:02:43 -0000 Message-ID: <374D6DE7.306D2847@isinet.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:08:07 -0400 From: Adam Turoff Reply-To: aturoff@isinet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.dell.com/linux References: <3.0.6.32.19990527013226.008ae120@MAIL.PSN.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews wrote: > > At 07:06 AM 5/27/99 +0200, you wrote: > >But FreeBSD runs great on Dells... > > Yeah.. it runs GREAT on my Inspiron 7000... now just tell me how the FSCK > i'm supposed to get rid of this !$%!@ Lucent WinModem! They told me there > is no alternative to this internal modem.. and that his internal slot was > designed ONLY for !@$!@# Lucent Winmodem!! I just got a Dell Laptop, mostly because a colleague said that it worked great with a RedHat install. (Maybe Debian). Foolish me, I buy one and start to install FreeBSD. I didn't order the builtin winmodem, and asked for a pcmcia modem. Seems to be working fine so far. The worst part was ordering a 6GB drive and not having fips recognize it. So I had to fdisk and fsck the damn thing, and about the third try, I got it to dual boot. The install went wonderfully. Haven't managed to get X configured yet, but I'm blaming the problems on (1) Microsoft, (2) new video h/w, and (3) X. I expected all three. Z. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message