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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