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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 360CE Date: 14 Aug 1995 18:45:34 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 36 Message-ID: <40o5ke$nh6@helena.MT.net> References: <9508102033.AA01590@cs.weber.edu> <40gdcu$4nd@roma.axis.se> <40mj1g$b06@roma.axis.se> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <40mj1g$b06@roma.axis.se>, Seppo Ruuskanen <Seppo.Ruuskanen@axis.se> wrote: >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. >>> >>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. >> > >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! URL: ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming/nate/TPAD.flp. However, note that this kernel is only useful for the install. I need to make a new root.flp which also contains a GENERIC kernel for the ThinkPad for installation on the hard-drive. I'll be doing that this evening, but in the meantime you should be able to install everything. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fishing? Send me email, and we'll home #: (406) 443-7063 | setup something.