From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jun 1 23:30:40 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 6F5E31525F for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem14.masternet.it [194.184.65.24]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA06083; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:30:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.1.19990602081945.01851e20@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:28:07 +0200 To: Annelise Anderson From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Sony VAIO C1 Picturebook Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, ulf@alameda.net In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990531142247.011eab00@194.184.65.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01/06/99, Annelise Anderson wrote: >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 floppy ?? Perhaps I didn't explain like I want. :-) I want to say you have to buy a connector that permits to use the internal HD of Vaio 2.5 inch in a normal box, like you do with a normal HD 3.5 When you have attacched such connector to the VAIO HD you are able to plug it in the normal ide cable found in every box today. Then you enter in the bios of the "normal box" and let it recognize the Vaio HD normally... You boot a FreeBSD Cd and install everything you want, then you remove the little HD from here and put again in the VAIO. You should install at least the src. kernel for the first fine tuning of the kernel. >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! It's very fast even if you have to handle some hardware :-) Hope it explains better... 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