Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:40:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: "Craig, Rob" <Rob.Craig@tfeurope.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: !! Does FreeBSD run on a Dell Notebook !! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010705111245.11298C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <E16D36125760D311961900902732AF37202B6E@pmkgbext1.datastream.com>
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The short answer is probably. I use a Dell Inspiron 7500 and two VERY old Latitude LM's with no problems. But you should check out the archives for the hardware mailing list, the handbook (URL below), and then post this question to freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG if you still have questions. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-hw.html A try-it solution would be to boot the CD (if the XPi can do that) or make a floppy and see if sysinstall will recognize all the hardware. I had the most problems with X windows rather than FreeBSD. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Craig, Rob wrote: > Afternoon, > > I would like to switch from Redhat Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is giving my > grief. I have an old notebook I would like to install it on. Can you tell me > if anyone has tested it or it runs fine? > > Dell Latitude XPi P133ST > NeoMagic 2070 Graphics Card 1Mb > Panasonic KXL-DL40 SCSI external CDROM (PCMCIA) > 3Com 3CCFE575CD-D PCMCIA Network Card > > Notebooks are troublesome with anything but I am not sure if Free BSD has > all the drivers? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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