From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 10 11: 4:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f302.hotmail.com [207.82.251.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3F9D15577 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from the_hermit665@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 119 invoked by uid 0); 10 Oct 1999 18:03:26 -0000 Message-ID: <19991010180326.118.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 216.160.92.51 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:03:26 PDT X-Originating-IP: [216.160.92.51] Reply-To: the_hermit665@hotmail.com From: "Cosmic 665" To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compaq Lte 4/33c + Docking station Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:03:26 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi; I have a Compaq LTE 4/33c notebook and docking station (consisting of a 5 1/2 floopy and 4x cdrom *IDE*) in which I'm tring to install FreeBSD. *When the laptop is undocked* I'm able to get all the way to the install screen and install FreeBSD through a parrallel port or serial port (If I knew how to setup the server end.. hehe). *Undocked* However, the laptop Freezes at the "Probing for Devices" screen when it's booting the installation screen. I've tried to install NETBSD on this laptop and it would have worked fine (Had I gone through with it). Red Hat linux installed fine too (But I can't stand "Penguin technology" :P. If anyone has any Idea as to why this laptop won't install right... plz let me know sys specs: MODEL: Compaq LTE 4/33c 486DX33 MHz processor 20MB of RAM 510HD Intergrated trackball (is currently running on com2 irq 3) serial port (com1 irq 4) modem port (com3 irq 10) Docking station: Big-OLd&Ugly 5 1/2 floopy drive (yeah I said floopy... I like the spelling better :P) Creative labs 4x CD-ROM (IDE) *during the visual device editior if I take out the 2nd IDE/ESDI/etc.. interface the install process works fine.. But I would like to use the cdrom with this laptop* thx.. -Cosmic-665 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message