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From: hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: {free,net} bsd on a ibm thinkpad 720?
Date: 9 Nov 1993 03:26:26 GMT
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Keith Moore (moore@cs.utk.edu) wrote:
> Hi...
> I've tried to install both freebsd 1.0 and netbsd 0.9 on an ibm thinkpad.
> results:
> netbsd dies (reboots) during autoconfig. presumably the probe for one
> of the nonexistent devices causes the thinkpad to throw up.
> freebsd gets through autoconfig, but apparently the keyboard generates
> the wrong scan codes, so I can't talk to the installation program.
> (e.g. the '`' key seems to generate control-H)
> has anyone managed to get either 386bsd port to work with one of these beasts?
The 720 is an MCA machine (I have one too), and none of the free BSD's
will run on an MCA arch machine. If you like programming you could
port it...
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