Re: Laptops & FreeBSD

Lars Engels <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:22:33 -0600, Shaun Reiger wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> Thank you for the links and your laptop install story, I was glad to
> read that you where able to solve your boot/bios problems. I'm not
> sure if any one has tried installing FreeBSD on a Lenovo X1, but this
> was the laptop I was considering. It seems like most of hardware is
> intel. But I'm unsure of support for its hardware in the current BSD.
> Here is a link to the site, and if you know of any issues installing
> it please let me know.
>
> 
> http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/webca/LenovoPortal/en_CA/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=F8EAB670D7F93AC90F0B9F6C58B8E7A2&action=init
>


You could download a 9-CURRENT snapshot [1] from PCBSD, flash it to 
thumb drive and
test the live mode in a notebook shop nearby.

That's what I did before buying my Lenovo X200.



Lars


[1] ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/snapshots/
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