From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 14 15:55:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CF837B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.lynuxworks.com (smtp.Lynuxworks.COM [207.21.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE0B43E72 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pbuckingham@Lnxw.COM) Received: from lnxw.com (farscape.isdcorp.com [216.100.252.8]) by smtp.lynuxworks.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g7EMt7731288; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:55:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3D5ADECB.6060505@lnxw.com> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:50:51 -0700 From: Peter Buckingham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD and HP Pavilion computers References: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Julian, Julian Elischer wrote: > did you get CDs? it had the recovery cds. > I was going to try reinstall the Windows in a virtual partition > for VMware but as they give you a the software distribution > in a "recovery partition" on the disk instead of on CDs > that becomes hard(er). i remember have some difficulties because the recovery cds try to take the whole partition. with partition magic i think that i hid the end partition and everything was okay. > Also whan IO put on the BSD boot manager it booted directly to 'recovery > mode' instead of to BSD. It then wanted to > recreate the original (BIG) ntfs partition instead of > living with the BSD partiton and smaller ntfs partition I replaced > it with.. I'm still experimenting with it though.. not sure about this, it was a while ago since i did it. > also any idea what type the ethernet card is.. BSD 4.4 didn't see it > that's for sure.. mine was a wierd version of realtek, i haven't managed to get it working yet. it detects it but then has problems so it doesn't quite load. i am currently having problems with it detecting my modem. i have an actiontec pci modem which has it's id listed in the pci_ids, pciconf -lv lists it, but it is not detected as an sio on boot :-( this modem is detected and runs fine under linux and windows on the exact same pc. i am trying to upgrade to current to see whether this helps... i can give you more details when i get home. peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message