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From: hoffman@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Hoffman)
Subject: bsd386 on laptops?
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 17:53:44 GMT
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I went into PC store this morning to test FreeBSD on a toshiba 1650
laptop before buying it.
It would only said 'read error' when presented with a boot disk.
a toshiba protege exhibited the same behavour
an IBM thinkpad 450 read the disk, but after the initial image
loaded, it was unable to address the floppy to read the kernel
a compaq contura seemed to boot fine on the floppy (not to
say that I wouldn't have had problems if I had actually
tried to install)
I haven't seem to have had any problems on the various desktop systems
I have tried.
has anyone had successful experiences with 386BSD derivates on any*
laptop machine?