From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 18:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from admin.nni.com (mike.nni.com [216.107.0.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C334637B71F for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:47:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eas358@nni.com) Received: from [216.107.16.155] (HELO chaosxe) by admin.nni.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.3) with SMTP id 3777867 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:47:22 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01c0bbe1$374701d0$9b106bd8@CHAOSXE.NET> From: "NNI" To: Subject: system compatibility questions Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:55:52 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0BBF1.FA47DD20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0BBF1.FA47DD20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello! I am currently running a Toshiba Sattellite Pro 4300 series laptop = computer; PIII 700, 196MB Ram, 12GB harddrive, DVD rom..=20 I'm wondering how much hacking ill have to do to get USB to work under = freebsd? I just bought an iomega CDRW drive and want to make sure itll = function under this OS before i go ahead and d/l and install. ill be = using 4.0 -STABLE for the install, just wanted to check up on config to = ensure minimal hassles. i've run redhat, slackware and HP-UX on various = machines in the past, but this would be a first time to BSD: mostly for = security purposes. Please reply with USB support details: particularly = with the zip.. I saw nothign on it in the docs end of the site, though = you have parrallel and SCSI support for iomega drives... Thanks for your time! Erik Swanson ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0BBF1.FA47DD20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello!

I am currently running a Toshiba = Sattellite Pro=20 4300 series laptop computer; PIII 700, 196MB Ram, 12GB harddrive, DVD = rom..=20

I'm wondering how much hacking ill have = to do to=20 get USB to work under freebsd? I just bought an iomega CDRW drive = and want=20 to make sure itll function under this OS before i go ahead and d/l and=20 install. ill be using 4.0 -STABLE for the install, just wanted to = check up=20 on config to ensure minimal hassles. i've run redhat, slackware = and HP-UX=20 on various machines in the past, but this would be a first time to BSD: = mostly=20 for security purposes. Please reply with USB support details: = particularly=20 with the zip.. I saw nothign on it in the docs end of the site, though = you have=20 parrallel and SCSI support for iomega drives...

Thanks for your time!

Erik Swanson

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