From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 12:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18785 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18766 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18519; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:54:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jean-Paul Beconne cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway laptops In-Reply-To: <34CDB1F6.4B79AEA8@nmrc.ucc.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Jean-Paul Beconne wrote: > I would like to install UNIX FreeBSD on a laptop from Gateway 2000 > (Solo 2100 133 Mhz or Solo 2300 133 Mhz MMX). Gateway provides me > the laptop with Windows'95 and MS Office 97. > > Is this hardware suitable for FreeBSD ? Sure. > Should I ask Gateway to performe a partition or can I performe it after > the installation of Windows 95 and the applications ? You can do it, it's not that hard. Don't forget to leave unallocated space to put the FreeBSD slice into. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major