From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 31 5:29:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9679614E50 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 05:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem37.masternet.it [194.184.65.47]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA49370; Mon, 31 May 1999 14:29:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.1.19990531142247.011eab00@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:26:45 +0200 To: Annelise Anderson From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Sony VAIO C1 Picturebook Cc: mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <19990530154040.A60549@area51.fremont.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 30/05/99, you wrote: >I'm talking about the C1 in comparison to the 505. The screen >is fine with me. I just can't figure out how to install >FreeBSD on it, since I can't boot floppies (usb floppy is >not yet supported). A parallel port usb is supported and I >could connect to another machine that way, but I still can't >boot install floppies. > >And FBSDBOOT.EXE is according to -current messages (if I >can summarize to the best of what I can gather from the slew >of messages) not usable with elf. I could, I suppose, try >an old (say, 3.1) cd and try to use install.bat and/or >FBSDBOOT.exe. Otherwise, I don't know. Try to boot an >image from the hard drive while in Win98? If you have a spare box, I strongly suggest to remove the internal HD and get a connector to use it in the place of the "normal" HD. I have bought one and I usually use it to install the system for toshiba libretto. When you have finished to install FreeBSD you put the HD in Sony Vaio again... I know it is long and boring operation, but sometimes it is the last chance... :-) Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message