Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 16:11:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Dell Inspiron 5000 installation Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004301545570.10952-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000430114002.B88370@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:43:18 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook and have already installed > > Windows 98 on the first 60% of the 12Gig disk. Now I want to install > > FreeBSD 4.0-Release in the rest 40% of the disk. I met the following > > problems: > > > > (1) After booting from the two floppies, I try to do fdisk in > > sysinstall. But it says "no disk". > > What exactly do you mean here? Did you go into the partition editor, > or did you start fdisk by some other means? Sorry that I did not make that clear. I mean I can use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to get the machine into sysinstall menu. But when I try to get into a fdisk like menu, sysinstall says "no disk". My guess is that there is not proper driver in those two boot floppies. Anyway, as you said below, I have found that I can press F2 when the Dell logo appears. Go into BIOS and let it boot from the CD-ROM. I have installed both Win 98 and FreeBSD 4.o on it and am using it right now. > > (2) I can not let the notebook to boot from CD-ROM. I have the first > > bootable CD-ROM that I used on desktop PCs with no problems. I can not > > press DEL to bring up the BIOS screen during bootup. > > I don't believe this is the way to do it. I've just installed FreeBSD > 4.0 on an Inspiron 7500, and had no difficulties. But to get to the > setup menu I had to press F2 during bootup, as described in the > manual. I'd expect that the 5000 is similar. Yes. I should be able to find this myself without bothering others. > > (3) I want to configure X-windows on this notebook. How do I choose the > > frequence for the monitor and resolution for the video card? I read from > > the XFree86 site that incorrect setting could damage monitors. > > I don't know if you can. I had to get AcceleratedX. I have the > 1400x1050 screen, but even without that I doubt it would work: XFree86 > setup just hung the machine. I'm pretty sure that the 5000 has the > same video hardware as the 7500. I read your book about X-Windows setup and am afraid that improper setting could damage the monitor or something (page 121 of your book). Under windows 98, it says the video card is "RAGE MOBILITY-P AGP", 16 colors, 1024x768, 60Hz. I am considering whether I can try X server Mach64 on FreeBSD. The SuperProbe program on FreeBSD also says it is a ATI Rage Mach64 card. You may be insterested in the following site (I am new to X-windows AND running FreeBSD on a notebook). http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/other_unix.html > > (4) Is the Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 card supported in > > 4.0? > > No. Work is in progress to get CardBus support into 5.0-CURRENT, but > at the moment you're out of luck. You can't even put the cards in and > not use them: I put in a 3Com CardBus card, and it crashed pccardd. > > Greg -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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