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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM thinkpad 755c?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:10:53 GMT
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nets@netcom.com (H. Paul Hammann) writes:
> 
>      Unfortunately I had to remove FreeBSD from the Gateway so I can't 
> play around with trying to build a new boot disk.  How does one install
> FreeBSD on an IBM Thinkpad 755c?  All pointers to information appreciated.

Nate Williams used to keep a boot floppy around that was configured
with the pcvt console driver.  Some Thinkpads have problems in turning
their keyboard into ``ancient PC scan mode'', and the default console
driver cannot handle them.

Look around in the FreeBSD/incoming directory on ftp.cdrom.com.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)