Re: how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-20 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/20/05, Peter van der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP laptop. I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give the installer a hint about the graphics card, typically something like: boot: linux

RE: how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter van der Linden Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 7:06 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to install on laptop? video issue? I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP

how to install on laptop? video issue?

2005-06-19 Thread Peter van der Linden
I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP laptop. I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give the installer a hint about the graphics card, typically something like: boot: linux vga=771 When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes