Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-20 Thread Daniele Pilenga
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 1:52 AM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm buying a new laptop specifically for OpenBSD but I want to make sure everything is compatible first. Has anyone ever purchased the ThinkPad T410? CPU: Intel Core i7-620M Processor (2.66GHz, 4MB L3, 1066MHz FSB) I

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-20 Thread James Hozier
From: Scott McEachern sc...@erratic.ca Subject: Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD To: James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com Cc: misc@openbsd.org Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:24 AM Save yourself some grief: 1) get a $5 USB stick from $discount_store 2) install a OpenBSD on a bootable

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-20 Thread Floor Terra
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:43 PM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there an official guide somewhere for making a bootable OpenBSD USB drive? I have a 2GB USB drive my school gave me and I never use it. Just do a normal install to the USB drive and it should work. -- Floor

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Daniele Pilenga dpile...@gmail.com wrote: Don't be so sure about Intel graphics, I have been said not all of the GMA types are supported (I think intel(4) is your friend, here). The GMA 500 isn't supported, but it only comes with Atom CPUs.

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-20 Thread Matthias Guedemann
Is there an official guide somewhere for making a bootable OpenBSD USB drive? I have a 2GB USB drive my school gave me and I never use it. The easiest is to go here: http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/ If you want to try a newer version than 4.6, you can follow the instructions there

Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-19 Thread James Hozier
I'm buying a new laptop specifically for OpenBSD but I want to make sure everything is compatible first. Has anyone ever purchased the ThinkPad T410? CPU: Intel Core i7-620M Processor (2.66GHz, 4MB L3, 1066MHz FSB) Screen: 14.1 WXGA+ TFT, w/ LED Backlight (WWAN antenna) Graphics (avoiding

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-19 Thread Scott McEachern
James Hozier wrote: I'm buying a new laptop specifically for OpenBSD but I want to make sure everything is compatible first. Has anyone ever purchased the ThinkPad T410? CPU: Intel Core i7-620M Processor (2.66GHz, 4MB L3, 1066MHz FSB) Screen: 14.1 WXGA+ TFT, w/ LED Backlight (WWAN antenna)

Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

2010-03-19 Thread STeve Andre'
On Friday 19 March 2010 20:52:14 James Hozier wrote: I'm buying a new laptop specifically for OpenBSD but I want to make sure everything is compatible first. Has anyone ever purchased the ThinkPad T410? CPU: Intel Core i7-620M Processor (2.66GHz, 4MB L3, 1066MHz FSB) Screen: 14.1 WXGA+ TFT,