Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:40:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> To: Timothy Luoma <freebsd@tntluoma.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157? Message-ID: <20030920211056.T21556@freeman.4gh.net> In-Reply-To: <oprvtqukwinva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com> References: <oprvtqukwinva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 at 20:40 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> One is a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the other is a Toshiba 1005-S157.
> I know that folks have gotten FreeBSD to work on the Dell, but I
> have not found much about FreeBSD and the Toshiba 1005-S157.
I have a Toshiba 1005-S157 and am running FreeBSD 4.7 (currently, soon
to upgrade to 4.8/4.9). After over a year using it, I'm still don't
like it and wish I had purchased some other brand (but I'm not sure
what). I really liked the Dell Latitude I had at my previous job and
it ran FreeBSD quite well.
I have a web page describing my Toshiba setup. There are some things
you will need to deal with:
http://www.4gh.net/hints/toshiba/satellite1005-s157.html
> But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to
> FreeBSD, and it has the faster processor. I assume I'll be running
> WINE for a few Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile
> faster = better, right?
You might play around on with FreeBSD on the Toshiba first leaving
your current Dell untouched. Once you have a little more experience
you can try FreeBSD on the Dell.
I've never tried Wine but I dual boot between FreeBSD (most of the
time) and Windows (mostly for Quicken).
On my Toshiba I have the disks partitioned as follows:
% df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1 7.0G 5.4G 1.7G 76% /c
/dev/ad0s5 2.0G 807M 1.2G 40% /e
/dev/ad0s6 1.6G 490M 1.1G 31% /f
/dev/ad0s3a 126M 45M 71M 39% /
/dev/ad0s3e 252M 40M 192M 17% /var
/dev/ad0s3f 252M 8.0K 232M 0% /tmp
/dev/ad0s3g 2.4G 2.1G 88M 96% /usr
% swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/ad0s3b 490960 52 490908 0% Interleaved
C: is NTFS mounted read_only for FreeBSD
D: is the CD-ROM
E:/F: FAT mounted read/write for exchange between windows and FreeBSD
/ /var /tmp /usr and swap are one partition used for FreeBSD
I only have kernel sources installed on the Toshiba. I build ports on
another machine and install the packages on the Toshiba. If you are
planning a full source and ports installation disk space may be an
issue using my partition scheme.
Stuart Barkley
--
I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never lost!
-- Daniel Boone
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