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From: ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp (Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: installing on a notebook, urgent help, please.
Date: 14 Aug 1996 08:50:59 GMT
Organization: Centre for Informatics, WASEDA University
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In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 3 Aug 1996 19:41:55 GMT
|
|> The display shows fine until it shows the hard drive
|> is properly recognized, and then the screen sort of
|> blacks out; the hard drive keeps on running; as I hit
|> the keyboard blindly "root", CRLF, and then "echo ^G",
|
|You probably need to find out about the video chipset first.
|
|--
|cheers, J"org
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|joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
|Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
|
I never heard of a video chipset for notebooks. They are
all for Brown tube monitors. There's no mention of video
chips in the hardware manual, either.
I wonder if anyone ever managed to install FreeBSD on a
notebook computer.
Thanks.
Tsuji
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Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji
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