From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 17 8:26:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250FF1503B for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24703; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:14:26 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000501bee8c3$ac2ab7a0$b0c2fea9@parsley> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:14:22 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Alex Kwan Subject: RE: Can I install FreeBSD on a laptop without PAO Cc: freebsd-mobile Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Aug-99 Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! That 1. is 2 questions :) > 1. Can I install Freebsd 3.2 on a laptop > without PAO? Yes, PAO will support more hardware than 3.2 but 3.2 works just fine on my laptop (PC cards, apm, sound, X11 (with full res and colours), CDROM and all the rest - OK I think the USB works but I haven't got anything to plug into it anyway). > and will the PC card controller > supported by the original Freebsd 3.2? Probably (it depends on the controller). It is certainly worth trying 3.2 or -stable. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Steve O'Hara-Smith Date: 17-Aug-99 Time: 16:09:20 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message