> I will (hope) to buy a new laptop in a couple of months, how to make > sure that the one I pick will work under OpenBSD. > I understand that there is a list of supported hardware at: > http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
The way I do it and did it was simple really. I burned myself a live cd that run OpenBSD with X already on it, a bunch of applications and all. http://bsdanywhere.org/download/ Then I boot the laptop by simply sticking the CD in the various laptop in display. So, booted, but no X, some didn't boot and some ran well. Try a few applications and all was good. Checked the dmesg right there from the CD for some not supported hardware and all. Pick the one I like and pay fir it and walk out of the store with it. Was quick. I just told the rep that's what I was doing and asked him if he wanted to watch as well. He watch the first one then let me do the rest alone. Some store are more welling then others to let you do this, but make sure you pick a day that is not full of customers in there as they may not like it so much. (;> That's the quickest way I found out how to do as something the flash drive needs to have the bios changed to boot from and some just don't, but the CD is always on new stuff anyway the boot device before the hard drive, so no special changes needed to test and with the CD you are sure it will not write to the drive as well too. Well, not unless you really want to do so anyway. Hope this help you some never the less.
