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I’ve been experimenting with various operating systems on my Thinkpad and have been trying to get a Unix-like system on there. I’ve played with Ubuntu but the battery life is abysmal. I can get around 3 hours with Windows XP installed and barely half that with Ubuntu 8.10 installed.

Just for grins, I decided to see how difficult it would be to get FreeBSD 7.0 working on this machine. After I was done, I decided I’d share the knowledge:

Here’s how I did it