small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive in it later. 2 years ago

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Xn Nooby wrote: I dont particularly trust the online lists of laptops that work with FreeBSD, since my other laptop is on one of them. No specific laptop advice but I would have thought of that laptop list as a starting point. I wouldn't trust any single occurrence of this laptop works

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Micah
Xn Nooby wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive in it

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
I forget exactly what I tried a few months ago, I thought I tried everything everyone said. The hints you mentioned look different, so maybe I better try them. Maybe the hints came from another thread, after I had given up. If my existing laptop can be made to run FreeBSD without having to attach

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
thats an awesome website! I will check it out more thoroughly over the weekend, they had a lot of used thinkpads thanks! On 2/17/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x,