Subject: Re: Anyone ever install NetBSD on a Dell Laptop? (help...)
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/19/1998 12:28:30
At 11:07 AM 8/19/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>"Michael C. Ibarra" writes:
>> I am attempting to install NetBSD 1.3.2 on my Dell Latitiude XPi Pentium
>> 133Mhz laptop. I am using a scsi cdrom connected to my replicator port
>> (which I believe is an Adaptec controller and which also has a 3Com
>> ethernet port),
>
>Do these appear as ISA devices? PCI devices? PCMCIA devices? What type 
>of controller is it.

My hard drive appears as a WD disk, my scsi controller and my scsi cdrom do
not appear at all. I've even tried using a friends docking station, that's
where the scsi controller is, which is a Future Domain but this does the
same, nothing.

>> however I am unable to see any scsi devices when booting
>> with the boot floppy.
>
>Can you see the controller itself even if none of the devices on it
>are visible?

Sadly, no :(

>
>Perry

Thanks, 

-mike