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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Laptop recommendation? Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:18:40 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4gqqog$ee0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4go78e$472@server.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> wrote: >I need to spec a laptop system running FreeBSD that will be used in >network analysis/diagnosis applications. Unfortunately, my only >FreeBSD + laptop experience has been with the IBM ThinkPad 755c. The >ThinkPad is a nice machine, but it is no joy getting FreeBSD installed >and running on it. Use Nate Williams' installation floppy. He's put it on one of the ftp servers (either ftp.cdrom.com, or ftp.freebsd.org -- i forgot), under /incoming/nate/. -- 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. ;-)