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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [Q] External CDROM and TU TravelMate Date: 10 Jan 1994 17:14:25 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2gs2dh$s7a@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <1994Jan10.160151.9060@csli.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <1994Jan10.160151.9060@csli.stanford.edu>, Jeffrey Goldberg <goldberg@Csli.Stanford.EDU> wrote: >Two questions: > >I would like to install FreeBSD from an external CD-ROM connected >through a printer port. Are the appropriate device drivers >built-in to the kernal on the boot floppy? Or will I have >to put everything on floppies prior to installation? i think you'll need floppies. last i heard, there weren't any *bsd drivers for cd roms apart from sony, scsi, or mitsumi. >Second, I am considering purchasing a TI TravelMate 4000 WinDX/50 >with a 200MB IDE drive and 8MB RAM. According to __Byte >Buyer's Guide to portable computers__ the memory architecture >for the TI travelmate is not paged, not interleaved, but >"neither". Will this be a problem for FreeBSD. BTW TI's tech >support has so far been useless with this question. Thanks. mgill socs grabbed one a while back, and had the following observatinos: a. bill jolitz ran 0.1 and 0.2 [ THE GREATEST OPERATING SYSTEM EVER TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN] on the windx/50. we did the same [with pchkit] b. netbsd 0.8 simply would not run on it. c. freebsd 1.0r runs fine on it. d. linux runs fine on it. e. 0.9 boots on it, but it's now running freebsd, so 0.9 has never been fully tested on it. marc'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--