I just was handed a Dell Latitude LS laptop, old little laptop with 400Mhz, 256MB of memory, 40GB hard drive. I'd like to throw FreeBSD on it. Here is the problem. No serial port, no cdrom drive, and only one usb port that is not bootable at post.
How can I get FreeBSD on it?
I do have a laptop IDE converter so I can slap the hard drive into a desktop and install FreeBSD on it, but will that cause problems when I put it back into the laptop and there are new devices/missing devices? I have read that with FreeBSD's generic kernel, you can install FreeBSD on one system and move the hard drive to another and it will work. Is this true?
Thanks,
How can I get FreeBSD on it?
I do have a laptop IDE converter so I can slap the hard drive into a desktop and install FreeBSD on it, but will that cause problems when I put it back into the laptop and there are new devices/missing devices? I have read that with FreeBSD's generic kernel, you can install FreeBSD on one system and move the hard drive to another and it will work. Is this true?
Thanks,