From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Oct 21 16:55:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rutherford.eu.s1.com (rutherford.eu.s1.com [194.74.111.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89A037B401 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.eu.s1.com [194.74.111.3]) by rutherford.eu.s1.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f9LNtnx29854 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:55:50 +0200 Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2C6A for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 01:55:47 +0200 Received: from s1apjsydms01.s1apjmail.s1.com ([172.16.48.12]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 511; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:56:14 +1000 Received: from S1.com (freebsd.au.ficsgrp.com [172.16.48.219]) by s1apjsydms01.s1apjmail.s1.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 408PW073; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:55:42 +1000 Message-ID: <3BD3607E.821A3502@S1.com> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:55:42 +1000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith McDonnell Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 560 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm late, but then, what's new? ;') > > I am having trouble installing freebsd 42 on an IBM thinkpad 560 with > 133mhz / 40mb ram . > just did a similar machine last night (Sunday). TP560 with P100 > 1. cannot boot from pccard cdrom ( fair enough ) > 2. cannot boot from serial modem . ( phase deflink not connected error ) > . Tried this on my desktop box with similar > results . Tried to manually configure ppp settings in term mode - no > luck either . > 3. cannot boot from floppy ( ibm external floppy proprietry format ) > 4 . no ether network setup so NFS is out ok - what I did, is build (after much searching and mucking around) a dos boot floppy with the realmode drivers for the pcmcia cd-rom / 4x cd-rom, create a dos partition of about 700MB and xcopy the whole first cd to the dos partition. Booted from the floppies and installed from the dos partition. Of course, I have 4.5G to play with, so this is less than useful on a standard '800M' drive. Assuming you have the same / similar cd-kit as I have (1969008), I can use something like winzip to send you the files for the boot-floppy. hth, H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message