Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:03:24 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Pleschutznig, Andreas" <Andreas.Pleschutznig@Schwab.COM> Cc: "'freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600? Message-ID: <199905121603.KAA28175@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D6159A@N1002SMX.nt.schwab.com> References: <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D6159A@N1002SMX.nt.schwab.com>
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> Has anybody already been successful in installing FreeBSD on an IBM Thinkpad > 600? And if yes what did you do to make this happen? Yes. The first thing you need to to is set the syscons flags to 0x10 in the kernel configuration, in order for the keyboard to work. Also, some folks have had difficult installing with more than 64MB of memory, so you may have to remove it to install. Once it's installed, you need to build a custom kernel with MAXMEM set to the value printed out at boot-time. FreeBSD over-estimates the amount of memory used in the system, which causes the box to be very unstable. (It refuses to boot, etc..) Other than that it works *very* well. I'm using 2.2.8-stable on mine, although I had to make a patch for my PCCARD controller which will be in 3.2. I highly recommend the ThinkPads. I've been using them for 5 years now, and I've had nary a bit of problems with them that couldn't be contributed to dropping them on the floor. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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