From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jun 1 15:30:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB83915699 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA22634; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, ulf@alameda.net Subject: Re: Sony VAIO C1 Picturebook In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990531142247.011eab00@194.184.65.4> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for this reply, and for Ulf Zimmerman's note that the usb floppy is supported in the bios of these laptops. I got a connector and tried mounting a laptop floppy in my spare box but haven't been able to get it to even recognize the hard drive. If it did, this would be a great solution! Annelise > 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