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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: ccdw@kudu.ru.ac.za (Dave Wilson)
Subject: Re: *BSD on a laptop
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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
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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