Re: Problem installing on T20

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Wm Brian McCane wrote: I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run [etc] You have a problem which is technically called an "IBM laptop". IBM, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hibernate on the first partition it doesn't recognize (hypothesis #1) or on the first

Re: Problem installing on T20

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Wemm
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: Wm Brian McCane wrote: I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run [etc] You have a problem which is technically called an "IBM laptop". IBM, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hibernate on the first partition it doesn't recognize

Re: Problem installing on T20

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Wm Brian McCane wrote: I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run BTW, I just found that this is covered on the FAQ. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There is no spoon." --

Re: Problem installing on T20

2001-01-10 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Wm Brian McCane wrote: % % I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run % %BTW, I just found that this is covered on the FAQ. Otay, I must be blind. Where in http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/book.html is this? Thanks! Russell %-- %Daniel C. Sobral

Re: Problem installing on T20

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Russell L. Carter" wrote: %Wm Brian McCane wrote: % % I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run % %BTW, I just found that this is covered on the FAQ. Otay, I must be blind. Where in http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/book.html is this? MMmmm. I think I have gone

Problem installing on T20

2000-12-29 Thread Wm Brian McCane
I have an IBM T20 laptop that I want to run FreeBSD on. I have run Partition Magic and shrunk the disk to 4GB (leaving 8GB for FreeBSD). I downloaded 4.2-RELEASE and installed it on the box. Everything looked good until I tried to reboot the machine. At that point, it would show the ThinkPad

Re: Problem installing on T20

2000-12-29 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 06:44:28PM -0600, Wm Brian McCane scribbled: [Snip IBM T20 woe's] | Any ideas? see http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/ThinkPad/ and -mobile archives within the last month for info. Basically, IBM messed up on their BIOS, it won't boot with a 165(FreeBSD) partition. I am