From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 12:10:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67FE37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818DE43F93 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h52J9NOn071144; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost)h52J9NSu071141; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:09:23 -0400 (EDT) From: doug To: "Gunther, Dean (Dean)" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:10:29 -0000 I assume you tried to configure the kernel before running the install program. Assuming the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or the hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html Do not cover your hardware, I would ask the hardware question to freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org and/or hardware@freebsd.org. There may be a driver that will recognize your CDROM. On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Gunther, Dean (Dean) wrote: > I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to > install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB > hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an > ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out > how to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have a BackPack CD-ROM > drive (parallel port connection) that I use with the laptop, but I was > unable to find any information on whether or not I could get it to work > to install FreeBSD. > > I created the boot floppies and was able to get the install shell going > but without any access to the install files I was at a loss how to > proceed. I guess if I really wanted to I could try a floppy install, > but I was hoping for something a little quicker. At home I have a cable > modem and a linksys NAT box providing internet access so ftp does not > sound like a bad way to go, but I wasn't able to figure out how to get > the system to recognize the PCMCIA card. If there is a way to use the > BP CD-ROM that would be even better, but again I couldn't find any > reference to backpack's or even parallel drives so that has not been a > fruitful avenue to look down. > > I am still kind of new to FreeBSD and UNIX, but I am trying to learn. I > thought that installing FreeBSD on my old laptop would be a way to keep > it somewhat useful if only for web-surfing and/ or playing around with > some scripting work I would like to try to do. > > Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA > > Dean M. Gunther > Q-Agent > Lucent LWS > > dgunther@lucent.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >