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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!news.lth.se!roma.axis.se!usenet From: Seppo Ruuskanen <Seppo.Ruuskanen@axis.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 360CE Date: 14 Aug 1995 04:22:08 GMT Organization: AXIS Communications AB Lines: 42 Message-ID: <40mj1g$b06@roma.axis.se> References: <9508102033.AA01590@cs.weber.edu> <40gdcu$4nd@roma.axis.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-seppo.axis.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b3 (Windows; I; 16bit) terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) wrote: >> Has anyone gotten FreeBSD (either 2.0 or 2.0.5) running on an IBM Thinkpad >> 360CE? I got it to boot from the boot floppy, but when it gets to the menu, >> the keyboard does not seem to function at all. I can't select any options. >> >> I have successfully installed both 2.0 and 2.0.5 on my desktop machine, so I >> do know how to install it. >> >> Jeff Wilson >> wilson@vnet.ibm.com <- Internet >> IBM EDA/PD East Fishkill, NY > >By default the Thinkpad initializes to type 2 scancodes. > >You should build a kernel on your desktop machine with the option >(documented in the LINT configuration file) to force the console driver >to use type 2 scancodes. > >Then use that kernel instead of the default kernel on the install disks >to perform the install. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. How do I do that?, I have not found a way to build a new boot(install) floppy!. There is more in the bootfloppy than just the kernel. Anyway, if it is a secret I'm satisfied if I just can put my hands on a bootfloppy that works with Thinkpad 360/370. So if You want to share such a thing with us Thinkpadowners please let us know via this news- group! Yours Seppo Ruuskanen