Toshiba Portege 2000

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.

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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.

Work's Portege 2000
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.