From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 14:13:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C087C37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220A343F75 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003060221131405200r1fbqe>; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:13:14 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h52LDDOA062206; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:13:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h52LDDpP062203; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:13:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: "Gunther, Dean (Dean)" References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 02 Jun 2003 17:13:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44of1g18uu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 21:13:16 -0000 "Gunther, Dean (Dean)" 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.]