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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an NEC Versa 6030X? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 97 11:08:41 PST."
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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