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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM thinkpad 755c?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 16:31:26 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4ceb0u$bfs@helena.MT.net>
References: <netsDKKCGB.3yM@netcom.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net
Keywords: IBM, Thinkpad, 755c, FreeBSD, Install, Install boot
In article <netsDKKCGB.3yM@netcom.com>,
H. Paul Hammann <nets@netcom.com> wrote:
{ FreeBSD on an IBM 7xx series of notebook ]
...
>Thinkpad 755c it booted just fine but the keyboard seemed to be remapped
>randomly.
This is because IBM uses a non-standard keyboard controller in their
laptops. I built a boot disk and instructions on how to install FreeBSD 2.1
on the ThinkPads which is available on freefall:
freefall.freebsd.org:/pub/incoming/nate/*
Nate
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