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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Dell latitude?
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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"