From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 03:16:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC79106566B for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:16:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 753FD8FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5430 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2010 02:50:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:Disposition-Notification-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=hbo48r8EMKacVyDX1rE1nbGNqB5epaG311bDA39/o39cBsU4Ee7DUmERKUD5KANrxKGCLI3QojZi1OWdf/iGr64QfA1WOK5+2rQiBVhKzwpVE6CGLSiLR21g1m3FTs7Jfz8+dDKEyLnMTt5eOCY//ljBMMYUGG/NbRo3SBNeqB4= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rogers.com; s=s1024; t=1287543008; bh=RN9von8dT0oA7iM8w7+8okzxkovLqzbbB2W9+0j8dEw=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:Disposition-Notification-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=Hb5hWg3YuTpXktQtjpqkLEzBecshPijMGNzCjevbgylJkUYlR5g2X9O9EhhXGZexxYjykAPd9D7xWaXiYYSadgu6N/XPimUzcZ3INzqJVJVVELrjbi+owmtJ3Req3LUOaZ94LR1IHSfcuV553Z9Bb7dswyRGbQBFzjdB2J4503s= Received: from napoleon.localnet (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2010 19:50:08 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- X-YMail-OSG: 9o7tngcVM1nND58L6DPyePzmQaDI1Idk.wdUqwwapc6sLTO puO25rlsnrwh5HYZvUz8kxKz0DQQrLjCAv15hJrZyl9okr_Y3xqkxedYZqzO 4wRNSsMVLmsjUbKKi2mpH8GrN_lOvGQN60HdVg2o1WaBxKx154kRnsccdli_ JVJJACSNb8qVqXASyeGSSMylWJQEQ.MS2CiTjwKfJi0TQ6Ju6p52b_cxqOp7 s5MlpcOHxSmVeRDYzqc8B_jJz8gbSp8sZA.ictEVod.o4_d33Vqfkd.HwFsO z6c4EspcAJKvUhV5A6N.VP3PuEpctLnuKESbe21jLkBJgL07WXh89PxpRGkp 5P.ns2rEq9nTzlBOTEbgmodphdmAEIYP3SqpzleKuU6cBQkJRWJg2kr0k7ZQ pVEdVTeOL5RrpZoo- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:50:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-24-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010192250.06485.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:16:50 -0000 On October 19, 2010 10:29:46 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >El d?a Sunday, October 17, 2010 a las 12:17:16PM -0600, Warren Block escribi?: > > >>On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >>>Any alternative netbooks outside Asus which run FreeBSD? > > >> > > >>Of course. The Acer Aspire models vary, but the D250 is nice. > > > > > >Just to make sure: you mean the "Acer Aspire One D250" netbook? But this > > >seems to have a SATA hard disk, or are there models out with SSD? > > > > Mine has a SATA drive, but there shouldn't be any reason it couldn't > > use a SATA SSD in that form factor. I should add that just over the > > last couple of days, my D250 has started to panic at random times. > > That's new, and I don't know what's causing it. Given that it was a > > scrap machine I repaired, it may be hardware failure. > > > > >In any case, it sells for around 300 euro (around USD 380) and seems to > > >be an alternative as getting my Eee PC 900 repaired for the same price > > > > Now that the netbook craze is over, there are quite a few > > lightly-used ones for sale, often around $150 here. Look around > > before buying new. Relatively older models like the D250 may be > > better for FreeBSD, because they have Intel video that works with > > the accelerated xorg driver. > > $150 is seriously in my price range [!] But what about the > optical drive? If I can buy one on sale and install FBSD from a > CD or DVD, do all optivcal drive fit all notebooks? > > (( I remember seeing ads on amazon.com saying that "people who > purchased this notebook have also bought:) > > With a few things that I probably will buy. An optical, a 16 or > 32G SSD ... &c.) So if there is a fire-sale at Costco or > <> for an HP 9" or 10 Atom notebook, will I be able > to use another vendor's optical drive? > > gary > > PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX > 780 days :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I would expect a USB optical drive to work. I plugged an old DVD drive into one of those boxes that hold an IDE hard disk and plug into a USB port, and it worked fine on my (Linux) ASUS EeePC 1000. It looked pretty amateurish, but it did work. -- http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca