Date: Tue, 04 Mar 97 13:51:19 PST From: raj@cisco.com To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an NEC Versa 6030X? Message-ID: <199703042151.NAA20494@rjohnson-home-ss20.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 97 11:08:41 PST." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970304110802.21914L-100000@localhost>
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> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Richard Johnson wrote: > > > I'm thinking about purchasing a NEC Versa 6030X notebook PC and running > > FreeBSD with X Windows on it. This system has a 1024x768 (XGA) TFT > > screen, a Pentium 133 processor, 1.44Gb disk, 16Mb memory (I would > > probably upgrade that to at least 32Mb). Are there any known problems > > with this type of setup? > > What video chips? I finally found specific information about this. It uses the CT65555 chipset. > > I figured I'd get the latest FreeBSD CDROM and boot/install directly > > from the internal CD drive onto disk. The system can handle two LiIon > > batteries at once so that should help a lot with power consumption, and > > I can always exchange the CDROM for another disk drive if I need more > > space for compiling programs for installation. > > Can you mount the CDROM and floppies simultaneously? if you can't you > can't install from CDROM, you'll have to use network or floppies. Nope. Can only have one of them at a time. I'm hoping I can install a basic system from floppy and then install the rest from CDROM? Thanks for the help! /raj
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