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From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
To: netbsd-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: NetBSD on a notebook?
Sender: owner-netbsd-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
I don't currently have an Intel machine, but am thinking of getting a
little 486 notebook to keep me from getting bored while out of town :)
I'm probably gonna have to run DOS and Windoze on it, but I'd like to
run Unix on it too if it'd work well.
So... what I'm wondering is will NetBSD run on a notebook? (I'm
looking at the Winbook XP, 486DX4-75, 16MB RAM, 340, maybe 520MB hard
disk, dual scan color display) I can't think of any reason why it
wouldn't, but will I be able to use the internal faxmodem or PCMCIA
Ethernet cards? Also, I suppose this is more of an XFree86 question
than NetBSD question, but will I be able to run X and use the little
ThinkPad-style mini-joystick-ish pointing device? (I can get a
built-in trackball instead if it makes a difference) The ads say it
uses the Western Digital Rocketchip graphics accelerator.
Thanks in advance! I hope I'm not stuck with just MSDOS :) If I can't
run Unix, maybe I can run OS/2 or something... :)
--
Name: Dave Huang | Mammal, mammal / their names are called /
INet: khym@bga.com | they raise a paw / the bat, the cat /
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