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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!kogwy!hosokawa From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 on Portables? Date: 21 Feb 1996 18:03:14 GMT Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4gfmp2$5ui@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> References: <4gd9qu$1679@olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beretta.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Dnas-Posting-Host: leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp X-Newsreader: gn + gnspool [Version 1.31 OCT.1,1994 (Unix)] In article <4gd9qu$1679@olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com> carlson@olympus.bzn.vlt.eds.com writes: >> I'm interested in purchasing a Gateway Solo or Micron Millenia Transport >> portable. I will probably be installing FreeBSD 2.1 on this portable. >> Is anyone using these portables (or similar ones) running FreeBSD? >> Will the CD-ROM and PCMCIA devices work ok? The portables will have If this CD-ROM is internal ATAPI CD-ROM, try atapi.flp in 2.1R CD-ROM. If this CD-ROM is SCSI CD-ROM and the internal SCSI controller is Adaptec 6360, aic driver in boot.flp will work. If this CD-ROM is external SCSI CD-ROM and you want to connect it via PCMCIA SCSI card, get pccard-test package (alpha-test version) and PCMCIA-ready installation floppy (alpha-test version). I recommend Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-1460 as the PCMCIA SCSI card. >> a 28.8 fax/modem PCMCIA device and I was wondering if I'd get it to Get pccard-test package. Please note that PCMCIA FAX/modem driver is still unstable on some machines. >> work all right? Also, installing FreeBSD from a CD using the modular >> CD-ROM -- will this work all right? Is a portable a good PC to use >> FreeBSD on? Or would I be better off with a desktop? Pccard-test package includes the latest bug-fix to APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS driver. FreeBSD works so fine on my laptop (w/ Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA, 3Com Ethernlink III PCMCIA 3C589B, IBM PCMCIA Ethernet Card II, Megahertz X-Jack XJ2144 FAX/Data Modem, SunDisk Flash ATA 20MB, etc.). -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan