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I'm testing out an ibm thinkpad x30 right now, which im very tempted to buy and use openbsd on.
I do however suck at trying to figure out what hardware parts i have and whether they are supported by the os or not.
so my question would be, is the thinkpads generally well supported by openbsd?
I think so, quite a few of the developers use the thinkpads.
Can't you just boot bsd.rd and see if the hardware is supported? You could also check out the i386-laptop page.
I could boot it,
but i have a few things to do before that, so i figured I could check that out while im trying to get partition magic or something like that (i have to dualboot).
thanks for the answer, ill look the laptop page
I read the page, x23 is shown, as is x31.
Ill give it a try and I'll suspect that'll be fairly suported
Please post a dmesg if possible
hmm, pardon this silly question, but how do i do that in a simple way?
I know I've done it before, but it've slipped my mind =/
do 'dmesg>foo' and the post file named foo here or do 'dmesg | mail you@mail.com' and copy it here from your mailbox.
Alright.
I wont be online for quite some time using bsd, so that might have to wait. but i'll do my best
I'm gonna go google on exteranal cdroms, floppy-drives and such. I found a pair that's supposed to be connected to the printer port. Does anyone have any familiarity with such devices?
Well since i've started one thread, i might as well stick to it to the end, or atleast a little longer...
I need to dualboot this laptop (Xp & OBSD) and that means i have to change things partionwise on the harddrive.
my problem is that i don't have a flppy drive or a cdrom to boot any partionprogram from, any of you have any ideas what i can do?
I dont want to wipe my drive if i can aviod it, since appearently thinkpads have some built in 'backup' partion for xp and that seems silly to remove since i don't need the hd space it takes up.
You could use a 2.5'' to 3.5'' adaptor in order to connect the laptop's hard disk in a desktop computer.
Then you could boot from an OpenBSD CD, make the partitioning and installation, and then assemble back the hard disk into the laptop.
problem is I would have to buy one, and I rather use the resources i got
thanks for the idea though. Could i instead 'share' the entire laptop on the network and then partition the harddrive from my other computer?
would that make me enable to put something like gag in the boot space on the laptop or would i have to get somesort of floppy device anyway?
if you have xp installed you can just use partition magic. you can edit partitions without using a boot floopy / cd. It somehow changes the partitions while your in windows. If its some big change partitionmagic just does it on the next reboot, before windows is loaded.
that sounds great mate.
Does it bring a boot manager or do i have to get one on my own?
it could, i've never really checked. i just use grub because its my favorite
problem is I would have to buy one, and I rather use the resources i got
It's like $5 on ebay
i don't use ebay. for some reason i just don't like it.
I'll look around and see if i can find something at my mates though.
You could use a 2.5'' to 3.5'' adaptor in order to connect the laptop's hard disk in a desktop computer.
Then you could boot from an OpenBSD CD, make the partitioning and installation, and then assemble back the hard disk into the laptop.
Been thinking about this, since i've come to the conclusion that I can't really install OpenBSD as it is right now.
Now, i'm not the most computer savvy person around here, so I usually ask a lot of silly questions.. here follows a few:
1. Can I Boot a OpenBSD installation of a USB Floppy-drive/Cdrom-drive?
2. I've got floppy-drive/Cdrom that are connected to the printer port, but they don't seem to work. Allthough I'm suspecting that I somehow have to do some 'magic' in the bios for them to work, is that a correct assumption? (I haven't looked around there yet, I only tried if the drives worked directly.
1. obviously. I checked the bios setting and that's a yes.
2. Parallel port is now enabled, but I can't get the computer to recognise the floppy disk i've connected.
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