[SDBUG] BSD on Vostro laptop

[Peter Leftwich_Hostmaster]

Good day Raymundo,

There are two bsd live-cd's that I'm aware of, you might want to try them
out (bootable CD-R's).  One is called "FreesBIE" and the other is slightly
more commercial AFAIK, and is called "DragonFly" - good luck to you.

http://www.freesbie.org/
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mirrors/

-Peter

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:45 PST, Matt Szubrycht <matts at bmihosting.com>wrote:

> Raymundo,
>
> I think your best bet would be to ask on FreeBSD Mailing List
> <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
> There is quite a lot of laptop/netbook compatibility and workarounds info
> flying around on that list.
> Cheers,
> M./
>
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Raymundo M. Vega wrote:
> > I received my new laptop it is a Vostro 1510. It has XP
> > now but I like to install BSD, tried FreeBSD but found
> > that audio driver does not have audio input.
> > Did several google searches and can not find any success
> > stories with any of the BSD family, it seems like linux
> > is my best bet. Do you guys know a good place to look?
> > thanks
> >
> > raymundo
>