From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 17:17:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B01E37B9F7; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA76757; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:47:18 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:47:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , Mike Smith Cc: Darryl Okahata , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000803094718.R36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802141320.046d1ca0@localhost> <200008022048.NAA01799@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802143811.0517eee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802141320.046d1ca0@localhost> <200008022048.NAA01799@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:12:11PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 13:48:14 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> At 01:42 AM 8/2/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Hmm. Why are you installing from floppy? >> >> Because I want some things that wouldn't be on >> CD-ROM. The easiest way to install everything from one >> source is to do a net install. > > This is bollocks. You can change the media during the install, not to > mention rebooting if you're so wrought up over the pccard issues and then > resuming installing afterwards. On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 14:42:04 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:48 PM 8/2/2000, Mike Smith wrote: > >>> Because I want some things that wouldn't be on >>> CD-ROM. The easiest way to install everything from one >>> source is to do a net install. >> >> This is bollocks. You can change the media during the install, not to >> mention rebooting if you're so wrought up over the pccard issues and then >> resuming installing afterwards. > > There should be no need to do this. It should be easy and painless > to do a complete, straight-through network install. > > What's more, the problems with PCMCIA cards aren't limited to network > cards. NO card will work properly by default on such a machine, either > during installation or afterward. This does not make FreeBSD look good > on portables. You people are confusing two things: 1. Allegedly ("I haven't checked it myself"), sysinstall doesn't give you complete control over the choice of IRQs. This is a problem. 2. There's no reason ever for a net install if you have the CD-ROM. Even if you don't have the CD-ROM, nowadays it's easier to get an ISO from an ftp site and do it that way. On the whole, though, I think you're (Brett) making it harder for yourself than necessary. We've explained in minute detail what you need to do; why don't you just do it? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message