Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:01:41 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: Freebsd Advocacy <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD won't run on newer IBM laptops Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001002155947.017ac838@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210102b5fe9511a1f7@[128.113.24.47]> References: < <1EC8C16BC185D311ACB90008C7C563F3032C97A9@gblon1c3ex1.wcom.co.uk> <1EC8C16BC185D311ACB90008C7C563F3032C97A9@gblon1c3ex1.wcom.co.uk>
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Just for the record, I just installed FreeBSD 4.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.2 on an IBM ThinkPad A20m without any difficulty. I think it has 128 MB of RAM. At 03:48 PM 10/2/2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 9:30 AM +0100 10/2/00, Dyas, Alex wrote: >>From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih@rpi.edu]> wrote: >> > >> > At 12:49 PM +1100 9/29/00, Lachlan O'Dea wrote: >> > > >> > >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. >> >>Another 'for what it's worth' : I had a lot of problems getting >>FBSD to work with anything more than 64MB RAM on my TP-600, >>something I still haven't solved. Might be worth checking this. >>Other than that though it's fine :) > >All the RPI laptops have at LEAST 128 meg in them, so that's >not the problem here... :-) > >For further "for what it's worth" comparisons, here is the >configuration of the laptop offered to RPI freshmen: > >http://www.rpi.edu/dept/cis/web/laptops/Laptops00/specs00.html > >For FreeBSD and Linux installs, we used partition magic to >shrink the Win98 partition, and then installed either Linux >or FreeBSD in the space freed up. As I say, we haven't had >any problems with FreeBSD installs on our T20's, even though >others have had problems with freebsd installs on their T20's >or A20's. I am still not sure why we've been so fortunate. > > >--- >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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