JVC MP-XP7250 mini laptop

[bsdlist at kess.ch (Wolfgang Kess)]

Hello,

>> What was your favorite installation media type? A attached USB cdrom or fd?
> 
> My installation was somewhat irregular way.  I installed FreeBSD with
> PC-CARD CDROM which is the option of 7210.  Though sysinstall could be
> booted from CDROM, the CDROM was not recognized from FreeBSD.  So,
> after boot, I installed FreeBSD by FTP.

> I bought USB FDD after installing FreeBSD.  Since USB FDD is
> recognized, I think you can install FreeBSD by USD FDD.

> I heared that a friend of mine installed FreeBSD into 7210 by PXE
> boot.

I found this nice howto http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml
do the PXE netboot.

Did you dispose the WinXP and recovery partition?

Wolfgang