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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.



I successfully installed FreeBSD on my Lenovo Ideapad before the memstick image was available by pulling the circuitry guts out of a USB HD and hooking it to a standard internal IDE CD-ROM. Wasn't pretty, but it worked.



Best avoiding Ideapads generally though because of ACPI issues.





Peter Harrison

www.4harrisons.blogspot.com





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From:	"David Brodbeck" <gull@gull.us>

Subject:	Re: Netbooks & BSD

Date:		20th October 2010 19:33



On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

>         Sure,  the optical uses [I think] a USB connector.   Pretty  sure

>         that  all these tiny "toys" are made at one factory! and then

>         labeled  by the vendor.   If  all the opticals are essentially

>         the  same, then great.



I think they all pretty much follow the same standard. I've even had

success using an IDE CD-ROM drive plugged into a USB-to-IDE adapter

cable, before.

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