Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:24:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Laptop, 4 MB Ram, Mitac 4023 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109272312260.3543-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
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Hi, I managed to install FreeBSD on this machine, first the minimal set from the dos partition and then the rest, with swap, via PLIP. Not so bad. Lynx is ok. Pine is a little bit old, no arrow key navigation, no chance to run a browser (lynx) from URLs in mails. PPP is to old for me to undwerstand the manpages, neither new sources for PPP nor Pine did compile sofar. Now I have two problems: How could I upgrade with those 4 MB ? Still have the 3.0 CD around. Maybe they support my D-Link PCMCIA card. And the PS/" trackball, moused would be fine. The second problem, not related to upgrade (or should I try Linux ? ;-) is X11R6 on this beast. I have absolutely no idea what to enter into /etc/XF86config. It is a LCD monitor, the way those monitors were in those 486dx times. Monocrome, some kind of gray, dont know and dont know where to look for. Think the Video memory is 64 K... I know, it wouldnt be very fast, but for occasional fun, images etc, maybe even Netscape 3.0 runs on it.. The positiv side of the machine is a "big" HD, 328 MB... No accu etc, but I like it. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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