Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. I successfully installed FreeBSD on my Lenovo Ideapad before the memstick image was available by pulling the circuitry guts out of a USB HD and hooking it to a standard internal IDE CD-ROM. Wasn't pretty, but it worked.
Best avoiding Ideapads generally though because of ACPI issues. Peter Harrison www.4harrisons.blogspot.com ----------------------------- From: "David Brodbeck" <g...@gull.us> Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD Date: 20th October 2010 19:33 On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > Sure, the optical uses [I think] a USB connector. Pretty sure > that all these tiny "toys" are made at one factory! and then > labeled by the vendor. If all the opticals are essentially > the same, then great. I think they all pretty much follow the same standard. I've even had success using an IDE CD-ROM drive plugged into a USB-to-IDE adapter cable, before. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
