Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:39:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dany Cayouette <danyc@playground.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question on Dell Latitude laptops Message-ID: <20000509173956.V75157@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39178589.8F1DD08B@playground.net> References: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> <20000508115227.O61921@freebie.lemis.com> <39178589.8F1DD08B@playground.net>
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On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 23:27:06 -0400, Dany Cayouette wrote: > 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. > > I also have a few questions on a Dell Latitude CPiA. Hmm. I wonder what the difference is between a CPi and a 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? I've never used a dock, but Bill Fumerola has. It works fine as long as you don't try to dock or undock while the system is running; that caused panics last time I saw it (last October). > How do you tell the NeoMagic to switch from the 'dock' scrren > connector to the TFT Display? The same way as you do under Microsoft. Fn and F7 (I think). It's marked on the function key, anyway. > 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. Partition magic will do it, I believe. You'll have to remove the logical partition and shrink the primary partition which contains it. > I am also wondering if I will be able to boot FreeBSD > (something > about a boot section above 1024cylinder). The 1024 cylinder restriction went away a long time ago. The problems nowadays are more related to the 8GB limit, which shouldn't worry you. I once had three partitions on my CPi, and I could boot from all of them. 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
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