From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Sep 29 11:19:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0990437B424 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA124966; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:19:30 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000929124904.B14341@vet.com.au> References: <20000929124904.B14341@vet.com.au> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:19:29 -0400 To: "Lachlan O'Dea" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:49 PM +1100 9/29/00, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: >On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 06:13:25PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >[ dual boot works for RPI ] > > > I encourage people to voice their opinions with IBM, of course, > > but if you already OWN a T20, and you would like to use it with > > freebsd, then you might want to try setting it up with a dual- > > boot configuration. > > > > My second guess is that we (RPI) were just plain lucky... :-) > >It sounds like you were lucky. I spent a great deal of time >trying to get FreeBSD working on my T20. I was fortunate that a >colleague had a 600E, so whenever it refused to boot, I swapped >the hard drive into the 600E and used a sector editor to remove >the FreeBSD slice (yes, this was very laborious). > >The machine came with Windows 2000 installed, and I was trying >to install FreeBSD as the second OS. I tried both the FreeBSD >boot manager and partition magic, but it simply would not work. For what it's worth, our laptops came with Win98 on it. I just say that in case it's something about Win98 vs Win2k configs. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message