http://www.crowsons.com/puters -> port2000.php
While I worked for the Planning Portal as Technical Support Manager I was fortunate enough to be given a Toshiba Portege 2000 as my work laptop - it was an excellent ultra light laptop, and I quickly had it dual booting between OpenBSD and Windows 2000.
Obviously as a work laptop I did not have the Administrator password in order to change the configuration of the laptop. To get round this I used a boot floppy with Offline NT Password & Registry Editior by Petter Nordahl-Hagen. This is an excellent tool that uses a linux boot floppy or bootable CD-ROM to allow you to edit the sam files.
<Security Rant>
If you give physical access to a machine the security on that machine can be subverted.
</Security Rant>
To get to the BIOS during boot up you have to hold down Esc key, and if you hold Shift+F5 during boot you can quickly select which boot method you require without entering the BIOS. Interestingly using Shift+F5 allows you to choose to boot from PCMCIA card which is not an option in the BIOS boot set up.
| Toshiba Portege 2000 | |
|---|---|
| Names | port |
| OS's | Dual booting between [OpenBSD] and [Windows 2000] |
| CPU | 747 Mhz |
| RAM | 256 Mb |
| Hard Disk | 20 Gb |
| Info | dmesg 3.5 |
Using NT boot loader to boot between OpenBSD and Windows 2000, gives a certain satisfaction, this is described in the OpenBSD FAQ
(http://jcs.org/laptops/#portege this link has been dead for some time) jcs.org laptops page provided some useful information when configuring this machine to run OpenBSD.
Unfortunately when I left the Planning Portal in December 2004 I had to return this nice laptop.
