Re: Installing from USB drive
Manolis Kiagias <[email protected]>
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Dan Langille wrote: >> >> If your BIOS can boot from a USB CD-ROM, you will be able to install >> FreeBSD with no problems. > > Should. > > I've been able to boot from the USB CD-ROM but failed to install: > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/thinkpad-x61s.php > > FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x both failed. Eventually I succeeded with a > docking station that contained a CD-ROM drive. > > I must have been lucky. All my recent laptops can boot / install FreeBSD from USB CD-ROM. I only need this on the eeePC however. I also have a desktop without an internal CD and regularly use the USB CD to install. I have not been so lucky with USB hard disks though. They will not boot on anything but my most recent machines. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"