Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:48:02 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Dyas, Alex" <alex.dyas@wcom.co.uk>, "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops Message-ID: <v04210102b5fe9511a1f7@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <1EC8C16BC185D311ACB90008C7C563F3032C97A9@gblon1c3ex1.wcom.co.uk> References: <1EC8C16BC185D311ACB90008C7C563F3032C97A9@gblon1c3ex1.wcom.co.uk>
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At 9:30 AM +0100 10/2/00, Dyas, Alex wrote: >From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih@rpi.edu]> wrote: > > > > At 12:49 PM +1100 9/29/00, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: > > > > > >The machine came with Windows 2000 installed, and I was trying > > >to install FreeBSD as the second OS. I tried both the FreeBSD > > >boot manager and partition magic, but it simply would not work. > > > > For what it's worth, our laptops came with Win98 on it. I just > > say that in case it's something about Win98 vs Win2k configs. > >Another 'for what it's worth' : I had a lot of problems getting >FBSD to work with anything more than 64MB RAM on my TP-600, >something I still haven't solved. Might be worth checking this. >Other than that though it's fine :) All the RPI laptops have at LEAST 128 meg in them, so that's not the problem here... :-) For further "for what it's worth" comparisons, here is the configuration of the laptop offered to RPI freshmen: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/cis/web/laptops/Laptops00/specs00.html For FreeBSD and Linux installs, we used partition magic to shrink the Win98 partition, and then installed either Linux or FreeBSD in the space freed up. As I say, we haven't had any problems with FreeBSD installs on our T20's, even though others have had problems with freebsd installs on their T20's or A20's. I am still not sure why we've been so fortunate. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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