4.x or 5.x for newbie install on laptop?

[Timothy Luoma]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:24:20 -0400, Peter Radcliffe <pir at pir.net> wrote:

> Timothy Luoma <freebsd at tntluoma.com> probably said:
>> Let me confess an ignorance (one of many).  Is "Cardbus" just another 
>> name for "PC Card" (which is what I thought those expansion slots in 
>> laptops were called)?
>
> There are two types of card which go into those slots.
>   16bit (ISA based) PCMCIA cards.
>   32bit (PCI based) cardbus cards.
>
> The names get confused, "PC Card" comes into the fray (which can
> actually mean either) and confuses things further.
>
> The cutouts/keys on the end of the card are different, to make sure
> that you don't manage to put 32bit cards into 16bit only slots (16bit
> only comtrollers/slots are quite hard to find these days in my
> experience, just very old laptops).

Ah, thanks... I've learned my new thing for the day.

TjL

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<del>Toying with the idea of putting</del> Planning to install FreeBSD 
<ins>4.8-RELEASE</ins> on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop