From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 6 10:17:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoebe.wcom.co.uk (mailhost.wcom.co.uk [194.203.119.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BC6150DF for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 10:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kristian.holdich@wcom.co.uk) Received: from gblon1gw2.wcom.co.uk (gblon1gw2.wcom.co.uk [170.127.36.232]) by phoebe.wcom.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA21351 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 18:17:11 +0100 (BST) Received: FROM gblon1gw2.wcom.co.uk BY gblon1gw2.wcom.co.uk ; Thu May 06 18:16:59 1999 Received: by gblon1gw2.wcom.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 6 May 1999 18:16:59 +0100 Message-ID: <638F631FE126D21193CE0000F842EF6D02FBEE19@gblon1ex2.wcom.co.uk> From: "Holdich, Kristian" To: ML Duke , "Roger S. Lee" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: installing fbsd Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 18:17:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Obviously it depends on the thinkpad as they are all quite different, it does work on my thinkpad 600 very nicely but then again that's a p2 not a 386... -----Original Message----- From: ML Duke [mailto:mlduke@concentric.net] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 5:59 PM To: Roger S. Lee Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing fbsd On Wed, 5 May 1999, Roger S. Lee wrote: I recently put that issue on questions and was told the thinkpad will take FBSD as is--but there is something about loading up a particular driver if you want to run X. Duke > I just recently bought FreeBSD 3.1 and am thinking of installing it in > my old IBM thinkpad. The thinkpad is a 386, 16 MB RAM. > > I was thinking of formating the hard drive and installing FreeBSD as the > new OS. Will I be able to do this? > > Roger > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message