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

[Scott Robbins]

Bah, forgot to cc the list.
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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.
> 
> 
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> Scott Robbins
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