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From: gnn@wrs.com (George Neville-Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Winbook laptop
Date: 5 Apr 96 17:08:45 GMT
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
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Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.com> writes:

>Has anyone been able to get a FreeBSD 2.1 installed on a Winbook laptop 
>using the PCMCIA boot disk(or otherwise) and be able to get to your 
>CD-ROM off of the New Media Bus-Toaster scsi adapter?  I eagerly 
>anticipate a positive reply as I am getting sick and tired of having 
>only win95 on this thing.

I have FreeBSD 2.1 running on an original Winbook (pre-XP) with 340Meg
hard drive, and 3c589c pcmcia ethernet.  I installed over the Ethernet
though.

Later,
George

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