Hi.

Ah yes, as have been said multiple times since I sent this, sorry about the
lack of information.
The system is SLOW, and I mean SLOW: 75mhz, 20mb of RAM, 540mb hdd. It's a
ThinkPad 755Cs.

I've never considered putting the harddrive into my desktop (400mhz, 8gb,
64mb ram WinME Pentium II) machine,
but that is a v. good idea, however I'm not sure how differently laptop
hdd's are designed, and also my desktop
is a slim-line box; not really designed for additions.

Cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Yerkes
Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2003 3:58 AM
To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD on a laptop (but wait, the complications
grow)...


My powerbook G3 works fine.  It even net boots.
My RDI Brightlight works fine (even at 16 lbs:).

Not to be too cranky, but if iyou provide actual information
about your laptop, you might get actual answers.

Oh, you needsome ay to get large files to it.  If that means pulling
the harddrive and putting it into a real computer for loading, fine.

Quoting Arlen Cuss (acuss@optusnet.com.au):
> Hi.
> I intend to install NetBSD onto my laptop, and I have a few questions ...
>
> a) Is it even possible to install onto a laptop (specialized hardware,
etc.
> etc.)?
> b) Does a unix environment need to be installed before NetBSD goes on (eg,
> linux, etc.)
> c) There is no method of transport that I know of for files. I have
> downloaded the files from the FTP (/netbsd-1.6-release/tar/src...) and
> extracted them to a folder on my desktop computer, however: my laptop has
no
> network port, has a disk drive, but no cd-rom.
>
> Thanks for your time.