From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 9:16:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFCF37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:16:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8180843FA3 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:16:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:16:24 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18fk9x-0001Zv-00; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:13:29 +0000 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:13:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Ruben de Groot Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem installing 5.0 on Libretto In-Reply-To: <20030203162802.GA78926@ei.bzerk.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > Hi, > > While trying to install 5.0-RELEASE on my Toshiba Libretto, I > encountered the following problem: > > After booting from the kern and mfsroot floppies the installer says: > no floppy drive found. Consequently, it cannot load the drivers disk > which I need to do a network installation. > > Now, in 4.x there used to be a kernel option especially for the Libretto > floppy drive, but I can't find anything similar in 5.0. > Has anybody succesfully installed 5.0 on a libretto? Any tips are welcome. 5-RC1 went on a libretto (net install) flawlessly. It actually surprised me somewhat - I'd started off looking for a linux distro because I assumed that someone must've done the legwork already. (The only issue I really have with it is that the newer X neomagic driver is "smart enough" to "know" that 800x480 isn't a valid resolution - at least, that's what it claims in the logs.) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Personal responsibility for corporate decisions: if they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to lobby against. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message