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FreeBSD on a Laptop
Post 302079707 by Perderabo on Wednesday 12th of July 2006 11:36:27 AM
07-12-2006
FreeBSD on a Laptop
In this post, hitechredneck said:
I lost the C drive in my venerable Inspiron 8200 
I have installed a temporary replacement C drive and I have a Seagate ST910021A on order for it. If I can get that drive to work with my Inspiron 8200, I am going to install a quad boot XP-FreeBSD-Solaris-Fedora Core system. So far I have installed dual boot configurations with XP and each of the other OS's and I eventually got it work with Solaris and Fedora Core. I have just started on the dual boot XP FreeBSD. After the install, the os boots, but X is not running. Referring to the FreeBSD handbook, I see that this is an intentional result. Configuring X is a separate step. The quad-boot will be a very rough install, but the the result will be awesome. For the record, the lost C drive was XP and Redhat 8.
I will try to get X running sometime over the next few days and while I do not expect this to be a piece of cake, I also do not anticipate any complete showstopper. But I won't try the quad boot install until I have complete success with each dual boot install. And getting X running on FreeBSD is the final step to that. What problem did you have with FreeBSD on a Laptop?
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FreeBSD (while it's not a Linux) WOULD be my favorite if I could get it to run on ANY laptop!!!!
I have installed a temporary replacement C drive and I have a Seagate ST910021A on order for it. If I can get that drive to work with my Inspiron 8200, I am going to install a quad boot XP-FreeBSD-Solaris-Fedora Core system. So far I have installed dual boot configurations with XP and each of the other OS's and I eventually got it work with Solaris and Fedora Core. I have just started on the dual boot XP FreeBSD. After the install, the os boots, but X is not running. Referring to the FreeBSD handbook, I see that this is an intentional result. Configuring X is a separate step. The quad-boot will be a very rough install, but the the result will be awesome. For the record, the lost C drive was XP and Redhat 8.I will try to get X running sometime over the next few days and while I do not expect this to be a piece of cake, I also do not anticipate any complete showstopper. But I won't try the quad boot install until I have complete success with each dual boot install. And getting X running on FreeBSD is the final step to that. What problem did you have with FreeBSD on a Laptop?
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