Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157?

[Stuart Barkley]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 at 20:40 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote:

> One is a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the other is a Toshiba 1005-S157.
> I know that folks have gotten FreeBSD to work on the Dell, but I
> have not found much about FreeBSD and the Toshiba 1005-S157.

I have a Toshiba 1005-S157 and am running FreeBSD 4.7 (currently, soon
to upgrade to 4.8/4.9).  After over a year using it, I'm still don't
like it and wish I had purchased some other brand (but I'm not sure
what).  I really liked the Dell Latitude I had at my previous job and
it ran FreeBSD quite well.

I have a web page describing my Toshiba setup.  There are some things
you will need to deal with:

    http://www.4gh.net/hints/toshiba/satellite1005-s157.html

> But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to
> FreeBSD, and it has the faster processor.  I assume I'll be running
> WINE for a few Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile
> faster = better, right?

You might play around on with FreeBSD on the Toshiba first leaving
your current Dell untouched.  Once you have a little more experience
you can try FreeBSD on the Dell.

I've never tried Wine but I dual boot between FreeBSD (most of the
time) and Windows (mostly for Quicken).

On my Toshiba I have the disks partitioned as follows:

% df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1    7.0G   5.4G   1.7G    76%    /c
/dev/ad0s5    2.0G   807M   1.2G    40%    /e
/dev/ad0s6    1.6G   490M   1.1G    31%    /f
/dev/ad0s3a   126M    45M    71M    39%    /
/dev/ad0s3e   252M    40M   192M    17%    /var
/dev/ad0s3f   252M   8.0K   232M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s3g   2.4G   2.1G    88M    96%    /usr

% swapinfo
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
/dev/ad0s3b        490960       52   490908     0%    Interleaved

C: is NTFS mounted read_only for FreeBSD
D: is the CD-ROM
E:/F: FAT mounted read/write for exchange between windows and FreeBSD
/ /var /tmp /usr and swap are one partition used for FreeBSD

I only have kernel sources installed on the Toshiba.  I build ports on
another machine and install the packages on the Toshiba.  If you are
planning a full source and ports installation disk space may be an
issue using my partition scheme.

Stuart Barkley
-- 
I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never lost!
                                        --  Daniel Boone