[nycbug-talk] Help me install a BSD on a notebook

[George Rosamond]

Scott Robbins:
> 
> Bah, forgot to cc the list.
> (And then, sent it to the list from the wrong address)
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:25:20PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:35:50AM -0500, Assaf Rutenberg wrote:
>>> Hi all. I also have an Asus Ultra book I have been dying to have *BSD running on it and could use help installing. I can bring media and would be happy to buy drinks and food all around if we could get Free or Open installed on my UX32VD. thanks.
>>>
>> I don't know about that one.  I have successfully installed FreeBSD 9x and
>> 10x on  my ultrabook UX31E. 
>>
>> However, wireless only worked with 10x, I couldn't get it working with 9.2. 
>> They change the specs from time to time so that's no guarantee of anything.
>> Also, I don't have Windows on the machine.  It seems to me that it was
>> fairly straightforward though--the UX31E comes with a USB to ethernet
>> dongle that was recognized during install by both 9.2 and 10, (but not by
>> some earlier FreeBSD versions.)
>>
>> I also tried to install OpenBSD on it, but couldn't get it to boot--I do't
>> remember the exact error--IIRC, it installed, but upon reboot gave a kernel
>> panic.  In all cases, the machine was sharing the disk with Linux. 
>>
>> I repeat, this is the UX31E, an older Ultrabook, so your results may not
>> match mine.

Right, so the point to me is that the more preliminary work you spend on
dealing with it pre-installfest, the better.

Try booting of a cd/usb/whatever, put the dmesg in dmesgd on nycbug.org,
search and see about others' experiences.

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