From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 17:58:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2E716A4CE for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.mdx.safepages.com (mail2.mdx.safepages.com [216.127.133.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A487143D2D for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phummers@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.mdx.safepages.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49241D1DBC for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.mdx.safepages.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.mdx.safepages.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72845-08 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mail2.mdx.safepages.com (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 30FE31D1D9B; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:58:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 1Cust61.tnt19.tco2.da.uu.net (1Cust61.tnt19.tco2.da.uu.net [67.208.10.61]) by mail2.mdx.safepages.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41B01D1DAA for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:58:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:57:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Hummers X-X-Sender: phummers@cakes.iguanas.org To: Mobile-FreeBSD Mail-List In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040531205541.C39108-100000@cakes.iguanas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.safepages.com Subject: Re: T22 IO-Card FRU replacement X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:58:46 -0000 On Mon, 31 May 2004, Amata Hetepunuta wrote: > I found an old laptop, a TI TM7000--TravelMate 7000 to fool around with. > Since I am just re-famaliarizing myself with Unix type OS, I thought that I > would load FreeBSD or any compatible "Unix Flavor" onto it for the purpose > of practicing commands, refeshing myself with the system, etc. However, I > seem to have a problem. This laptop has no cdrom drive only a floppy. There > is a 2gig HD, and 64megs of ram. I have search the interenet with no sucess > to date. I am even thinking to use some type of embedded os, due to its > compact size. But to get it onto floppies is the consideration. > > Could any of you suggest a small unix type os downloadable onto floppies > which I might use. Check out PicoBSD, at people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html -Peter Hummers == "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed, well-armed sheep." -James Bovard, Lost_Rights:_The_Destruction_of_American_Liberty