From owner-freebsd-small Thu May 3 10:34:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C77637B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f43HYUb66025; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:34:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200105031734.f43HYUb66025@harmony.village.org> To: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 13:31:56 EDT." <200105031731.NAA00388@scarlet.my.domain> References: <200105031731.NAA00388@scarlet.my.domain> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:34:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200105031731.NAA00388@scarlet.my.domain> User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas writes: : This is a Laptop that does not have a hot swappable HD. I could take it : apart and see if it has an IDE drive in it or maybe get the info off of : dmesg's output as it scrolls by. I know I can get to a shell with the : NetBSD version 1.4 install floppy. I suppose I can run dmesg from there and : get the info about drive type. Thanks to Bruce, Greg, Bob, Warner, and : anybody else who responds. I think I'll hack around with the previously : mentioned Pico scripts and see if I can't get some results. I'll post the : success story(hopefully) when I'm through. Thanks for clearing up the : confusion about sysinstall. I thought the Pico script ran it after it : booted up the system. If it has a floppy, you'd likely be able to netboot the machine to partition your hard disk. I think that booting the fixit disks might also get you this, but you'd likely have to go back to the 2.2 series of releases where things still fit on one floppy. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message