Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Olivier Certner
Hi, On modern laptops, the BIOS allows you to boot from an USB key. So, you could prepare a key on another machine to bootstrap FreeBSD, by putting a proper MBR, partition table and partition ("slice" in FreeBSD vocabulary). The BIOS makes real-mode programs that use it believe

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread DAve
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: no, i dont have floppy... Search for FreeBSD diskless booting, the manual has info, there some how to sites as well. I've installed in Dell DataVaults this way. Works fine if your NIC card supports PXEBoot. DAve TFC On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:35:16AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > hi folks, > I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, > some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 > installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about >

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-20 10:35, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi folks, > I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, > some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 > installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about > i

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:39 AMJun 20, 2007, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install li

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Joe Holden
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > no, i dont have floppy... > > TFC > > On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: >> >> > hi folks, >> > I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, >> > some 14' laptop doesnt come

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
no, i dont have floppy... TFC On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > hi folks, > I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, > some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 > inst

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about installing on a desktop by bo

Re: FreeBSD on Laptop

2004-02-10 Thread rfa
hi kris, i was in the process of upgrading my kernel from 5.0 Release to 5.2 (on my laptop) and it won't boot. my boss gave me these instructions: #cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui && make all install clean #cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile /etc/stable-supfile change default host ->

Re: FreeBSD on Laptop

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:53:50PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Im just starting out and have installed FBSD on my laptop[DEll inspiron > 600m], its a dual boot with WinXp and FBSD RELEASE 5.0. > > I think that that FreeBSD successfully probed the power management > features(ACPI) because if