Re: FreeBSD 5.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-N505X

Jens Rehsack <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization LiWing IT-Services
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote:
> п▓ Mon, 27.01.2003, п╡ 16:38, Jens Rehsack п╫п╟п©п╦я│п╟п╩:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>does anyone has expirience how I could get a FreeBSD 5.0 installed on a 
>>Sony Vaio PCG-N505X? This machine has it's cdrom attached through a 
>>pccard. My problem is, that the floppy drive has a physical defect which 
>>causes in disk salad everytime I access a floppy with it, so I must boot 
>>from cdrom.
>>
>>Can I plug off the cdrom after boot and attach an ethernet card? Or do I 
>>have to create an own bootable cd, and what did I have to build into the 
>>kernel?
> 
> 
> You have options:
> - get native SONY PCMCI cd-drive and boot and install from it
I have such a one. But the pccard-driver didn't like it :-(
I will take the first option: I took the harddrive out of it and install 
on another machine and put the disk back after that.

Thanks for the hints,
Jens
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