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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Dell latitude? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Message-ID: <E0t9yA.Ip0@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:39:45 GMT Lines: 18 Is anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a Dell Latitude, especially the XPi P133ST? I installed it, and had two serious crashes in two days. The first time it seemed to have completely switched itself off (rather than going into sleep mode) while I was out of the room for half-an-hour, and when I rebooted it fsck reported about 30 zeroed inodes. The second time it crashed during a find and wouldn't reboot because it couldn't find /bin/sh. It hasn't crashed yet under Windoze 95. My experience of laptops is that they're all extremely flaky, but this seems worse than usual... -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"