[opus]

I want to try it....any suggestions on what will work or not? Any other suggestions?

[elmore]

I;ve never had a problem with any of the laptops I've used (primarily Toshiba) though I've also used HP Omnibooks. Just check the specs of the laptop and make sure the components are supported.

[opus]

I tried it on my Toshiba 2100CDT....couldnt even get the CD to boot an ISO.

[rob897]

I was able to install FreeBSD on my Toshiba Satelite without too many problems.

[opus]

Did you get it to boot an ISO?

[ealwen]

I used the 4.8-Rel ISO image to build my laptop. It is an older Thinkpad though.

[soup4you2]

i've installed it on various sony vilo's and dells seem to handle it really good.

[rob897]

yep the 4.8 ISO worked fine for me. I have a Toshiba 2775XDVD

[elmore]

I actually have a few 2100CDT's I;ve loaded FreBSD from, I've always had to load from floppies. Then again, I almost always do a ftp install anyways.

[KrUsTy!]

I've never had a problem with FreeBSD on the laptops I've had. I've had various versions of 4.x on a Toshiba Satelite Pro 4300, and I curently have 5.1 on a Toshiba Satelite 4600 with no problems.

The great thing about the 4300 was that it had a lucent winmodem that you could use with the ltmodem driver. Nice to be able to use the modem from a laptop in FreeBSD.

Both booted the ISOs no problem.

{K}

[opus]

4.7 wouldnt boot....nor would 4.8. I stuck in 5.1 and it booted. I will try and load it tomorrow. Wonder what will happen when I get to configure my Xircom PCMCIA. :roll:

[NullSpin]

I have a question regarding Freebsd and laptops. I've installed 4.x on a number of laptops and I never ran into any real problems. For the first time I thought it would be nice to use the external keyboard. Froze the system at logon.
Remove keyboard reboot...no problems. Add keyboard..frozen.
This is just a standard ps/2 keyboard on a compaq e500. Anyone know off hand what I have to modify to get that external keyboard going?
Thanks

[molotov]

I cant really remember, but I had some problem when trying 4.x and 5.x on an IBM, although it was a cheap education iSerries laptop... wish I could remember what it was... I finally got linux on it, it wasnt fun though. If anyone is interested, Ill write a howto on it...

[NullSpin]

Update on the keyboard problem. It only freezes during logon. If I plug it in after logon it works.