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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!ccdw From: ccdw@kudu.ru.ac.za (Dave Wilson) Subject: Re: *BSD on a laptop Message-ID: <ccdw.760688461@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <1994Jan28.170726.29367@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> <2ioeq8$l5t@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <NAWAZ921.94Feb6055056@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 06:21:01 GMT Lines: 21 In <NAWAZ921.94Feb6055056@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) writes: >In article <2ioeq8$l5t@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes: > In article <1994Jan28.170726.29367@penny.cs.fredonia.edu> mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes: > > A friend of mine who does not get this newsgroup is interested > >in purchasing a laptop and running *BSD on it. > I am also interested in this topic. Specifically, I would like to know what > ethernet adapters people out there use. >pc based or mac? I think the MacBSD folks are coming out with versions of >NetBSD for the powerbooks by April 15th (I hope...) I have recently installed FreeBSD on a 486SX laptop, using a 234meg maxtor disk and WD ethernet card (in a docking station). -- Dave Wilson Computing Centre, Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa