Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:45:59 +0000 From: four.harrisons@googlemail.com To: gull@gull.us, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD Message-ID: <4cbffe96.cc97cc0a.4c02.3579@mx.google.com>
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Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone.=0D=0A=0D=0AI successfully = installed FreeBSD on my Lenovo Ideapad before the memstick image was avai= lable by pulling the circuitry guts out of a USB HD and hooking it to a s= tandard internal IDE CD-ROM. Wasn't pretty, but it worked.=0D=0A=0D=0ABes= t avoiding Ideapads generally though because of ACPI issues.=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D= =0APeter Harrison=0D=0Awww.4harrisons.blogspot.com=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A-----= ------------------------=0D=0AFrom:=09"David Brodbeck" <gull@gull.us>=0D=0A= Subject:=09Re: Netbooks & BSD=0D=0ADate:=09=0920th October 2010 19:33=0D=0A= =0D=0AOn Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wr= ote:=0D=0A> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Sure, the optical uses [I think]= a USB connector. =C2=A0Pretty sure=0D=0A> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= that all these tiny "toys" are made at one factory! and then=0D=0A> =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0labeled by the vendor. =C2=A0If all the optica= ls are essentially=0D=0A> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0the same, then gre= at.=0D=0A=0D=0AI think they all pretty much follow the same standard. I'v= e even had=0D=0Asuccess using an IDE CD-ROM drive plugged into a USB-to-I= DE adapter=0D=0Acable, before.=0D=0A_____________________________________= __________=0D=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0D=0Ahttp://li= sts.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0D=0ATo unsubscribe, s= end any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0D=0A
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