From owner-freebsd-small Sun Jan 7 14:13: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from amleth.demon.co.uk (amleth.demon.co.uk [158.152.198.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B2D437B402 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:12:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 22:03:04 GMT From: PEB@amleth.demon.co.uk (Paul E. Bennett) Reply-To: peb@amleth.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <5019@amleth.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Subscription and Archive X-Mailer: PCElm 1.10 Lines: 49 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am new to the FreeBSD world and have a new blank laptop on which I am aiming to place FreeBSD. However, I have enjoyed some playing with the FICL boot-loader that is part of the PicoBSD floppy disk I obtained from the web-site. I emailed Andrzej and he advised... In message Andrzej Bialecki writes: > Ehm.. This particular version is rather for showing off the Forth > capabilities of the bootloader, and not to provide very useful Unix > system.. Also, all versions on the Web site are very old - I resigned from > maintaining them, and most of the support is available through > freebsd-small@freebsd.org mailing list. [%X] > I'd suggest reading the archives of freebsd-small. Therefore I would appreciate joining in with the discussions here and obtaining pointers to some of the archives. For the record, the new laptop is:- Dell Inspiron 3800 128Mb memory (DIMM) 12Gb HDD 2 PCMCIA slots IrDa port Comms Port USB port CD-ROM FDD (on printer port) ECP/EPP/Printer port Extension bus. Trackpad mouse+ I plan to use a Silicom SEM33 Ethermodem module in the PCMICIA for network and phone communications facilities. -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett .................... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy ..... Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 .........NOW AVAILABLE:- HIDECS COURSE...... Tel: +44 (0)1235-814586 .... see http://www.feabhas.com for details. Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ******************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message