Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:20:03 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: herbert langhans <w3@langhans.com.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation troubles Message-ID: <CAHHBGkrWALm=vC0zwrkhZDA34MYd5e7oq-8wuLDULOHxEzb_UQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120222140412.GA10673@manul.langhans.com.pl> References: <20120221223326.9EAE51065814@hub.freebsd.org> <20120222140412.GA10673@manul.langhans.com.pl>
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On 22 February 2012 09:04, herbert langhans <w3@langhans.com.pl> wrote: > Hi Daemons, > yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. > > Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to > such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the kernel > scans for the UBS-ports, booting impossible. > > Now my question: can I take the harddisk out, install FreeBSD 9 over > another laptop (with the X31-harddisk inside) and put the installed > harddrive back to the X31? Is there anything else besides the rc.d-stuff > what will/will not get installed if I use the 'wrong' computer? > > The old hd-cotent will be deleted, the new laptop will only be FreeBSD. " http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X31 " has a lot of good advice, though it tends to be a bit more linux-centric. I bought a cheap ATA -> USB adapter that had a lap-top style 44-pin connector (in addition to the usual 40-pin IDE) and installed i386 on an old X40 from a running copy of amd64 (make TARGET_ARCH=i386 buildworld make TARGET_ARCH=i386 installworld DESTDIR=/mnt/x40disk &cet after setting up and mounting the proper partitions) It worked fine, outside of the flaky intel 2100 wireless chip. -- --
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