Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:05:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, ulf@alameda.net Subject: Re: Sony VAIO C1 Picturebook Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990602080118.25799A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990602081945.01851e20@194.184.65.4>
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Sorry, I meant the hard drive. The bios doesn't recognize the laptop's hard drive, but it may be because it's an old bios. Annelise On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > 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
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