Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 23:27:06 -0400 From: Dany Cayouette <danyc@playground.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question on Dell Latitude laptops Message-ID: <39178589.8F1DD08B@playground.net> References: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> <20000508115227.O61921@freebie.lemis.com>
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I also have a few questions on a Dell Latitude CPiA. I run dedicated FreeBSD systems on a couple of old desktop at home (486 & PII) but never tried a laptop, yet. (and never tried dual-boot) I have a Dell CPiA running Win95 and I was hoping to make it a dual boot system with FreeBSD. How does/can FreeBSD support a 'docked' and 'undocked' setting? How do you tell the NeoMagic to switch from the 'dock' scrren connector to the TFT Display? The laptop has a 6 Gig Hard Drive. a 2Gig partition (C: drive) where most of the applications are and the rest of the disk is one 4Gig partition that is split into 2 'logical DOS' partition D: and E:. I have most of my data on the D: drive. I am not sure if I can do this but maybe someone can help me here... Somebody said I might be able to do this with a program called Partition Magic. I would like to 'free' my E: partition and install a 2Gig FreeBSD partition. I am not sure if this can be done because it is a DOS logical partition. I am also wondering if I will be able to boot FreeBSD (something about a boot section above 1024cylinder). Any experiences/hints would be appreciated.... Dany Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 1:33:56 +0000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > > Hi ya, > > > > I've just been informed that as of next month I will be getting a > > laptop: "Dell Latitude CPx, 450MHx PIII, 128Mb RAM, 6.4GB HDD, 13.3 > > screen, FDD, CD-ROM, 10/100 Dell/3Com PC-card NIC, V90 PC-Card modem." > > > > So, has anyone had success on installing FreeBSD 3.3 on such a > > beast? > > I've done it on a CPi with no problems. But I'd recommend a newer > release of FreeBSD now. > > > Any hints, tips, tricks, gotcha's I need to be aware of? > > Not really. On the CPi you need the following in your kernel config > to get sound to work: > > device pcm0 at isa? port ? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 > > The video card on the CPi is a NeoMagic, which is now supported by > XFree86. IIRC there was nothing special needed to install it. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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