Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

[Aaron Peters <acpkendo%gmail.com@localhost>]

The above-referenced link is this one, which is a report on the
installation of 3.1:

https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_on_a_nec_mobilepro_790/

Would be interesting to see if you could start there and upgrade through
sysinst all the way to the new version...

I couldn't say when I'd have time to try, but based on your report I may
try 4.0 and see if I could get it to v5. Confirming this might inspire me
enough to something current.

The form factor is so killer, I'd love to have it working with working
power management (suspend/resume particularly) and a modern version of
Emacs. A much better, more capable writing environment than the Traveler
Freewrite yet still blissfully distraction free!

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:16 PM Michael Grayson <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:49:06PM -0400, Aaron Peters wrote:
> > I saw a set of install instructions (will send the link when I get the
> > chance) that suggested in earlier releases lots of things worked as
> > expected, first and foremost among them suspend/resume. It almost makes
> me
> > want to try installing one of those and then upgrade to the newest
> version.
> >
>
> Ah, interesting. I would like to take a look at that when you get a
> chance. I
> can confirm that suspend/resume do work in versions 3.0 and 4.0 (although
> halt
> and reboot do not seem to work in any version reliably). I will also
> say that of the 8 versions I've now tried to install (3,4,5,6,7,8,9,9.1)
> only
> two (3,4) made it through the installer and worked as expected. After I've
> had
> the chance to try some of the intermediate releases I will send out a
> table of
> all of them and the specific problems encountered with each in case that
> might
> be useful to someone.
>
> In the meantime I'm happily using 4.0 ^_^
>
> --
>
> -Michael
>