Re: Netbooks & BSD
Uffe Jakobsen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.questions |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 20/10/10 04.29, Gary Kline wrote: > > > $150 is seriously in my price range [!] But what about the > optical drive? If I can buy one on sale and install FBSD from a > CD or DVD, do all optivcal drive fit all notebooks? > > > With a few things that I probably will buy. An optical, a 16 or > 32G SSD ...&c.) So if there is a fire-sale at Costco or > <<wherever>> for an HP 9" or 10 Atom notebook, will I be able > to use another vendor's optical drive? An optical drive will propably not fit in side a 9" or 10" notebook (netbook)... If you are going for a netbook I'd go for an external USB optical drive - all netbooks that I've come across can boot from external usb medias. Personally I prefer to install stable FreeBSD from USB memory stick. Since 8.0 FreeBSD has shipped a "memstick" disk image that nicely fits into a 1G USB memory stick. See: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img /Uffe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"