From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 7 17:37: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arjun.niksun.com (gw.niksun.com [206.20.52.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6B81552B for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ath@niksun.com) Received: from stiegl.niksun.com (stiegl.niksun.com [10.0.0.44]) by arjun.niksun.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10633; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:36:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ath@localhost) by stiegl.niksun.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) id UAA14167; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:36:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ath) To: Ollivier Robert Cc: "FreeBSD Hackers' list" Subject: Re: Sony Z505S [was: USB floppy & booting] References: <19990703174459.A57506@keltia.freenix.fr> From: Andrew Heybey Date: 07 Jul 1999 20:36:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: Ollivier Robert's message of "Sat, 3 Jul 1999 17:44:59 +0200" Message-ID: <85vhbwq8o0.fsf@stiegl.niksun.com> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ollivier Robert writes: > Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs > (probably the Z505S with Celeron/333 + 64 MB + 12.1" screen) and it seems to > come with an USB floppy (as opposed to the probably-IDE of former models). > > They've apparently ditched both the PS/2 mouse and the IDE floppy and moved to > 2x USB ports... I also have my eye on one of these (or possibly the Z505SX: P-II/366 + 128M). Anyone know what kind of ethernet card is built in? What about the modem? These are new enough that a web search did not reveal much about what is inside. andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message