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Date:      02 Jun 2003 17:13:13 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        "Gunther, Dean (Dean)" <dgunther@lucent.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop
Message-ID:  <44of1g18uu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <B99995113B318D44BBE87DC50092EDA908D46577@nj7460exch006u.ho.lucent.com>
References:  <B99995113B318D44BBE87DC50092EDA908D46577@nj7460exch006u.ho.lucent.com>

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"Gunther, Dean (Dean)" <dgunther@lucent.com> writes:

> 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.

Are you installing FreeBSD 4.8?
[If not, try it; that's the latest release, and the hardware notes say
that it supports that card.]



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