My FreeBSD Laptop Build
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My-Work-Reddit · 2020-06-22 15:41

I tried to install FreeBSD a few weeks ago on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420,
but kept running into problems just getting the installer to work - I
do not remember what the issues were - but I just gave up and
installed Xubuntu. I remember not finding any solutions to my issues,
which was really discouraging. I was installing to a brand new SSD
that had never been used before, but I don't know if that was the
problem or not.

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nahnah2017 · 2020-06-23 10:12

ThinkPad is a common platform for FreeBSD and is often the most
suggested laptop for it. I've never heard of anyone having issues
doing so.

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My-Work-Reddit · 2020-06-23 13:36

I think it may have been this error:

> *"Can't work out which disk we are booting from"*

But I was too anxious or impatient to go through the steps to fix it.

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linuxbuild · 2020-07-20 14:10

Add it to
[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/](https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/)
and [https://bsd-hardware.info/](https://bsd-hardware.info/)