Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:36:47 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Balgansuren Batsukh <balgaa@micom.mn> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 boot on Lenovo X60 Message-ID: <472E1F4F.7030409@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <20071104194331.b4fe5f45.cyb.@gmx.net> References: <200711021208.25913.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <472D9B2A.5080900@FreeBSD.org> <200711041302.08877.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <200711041423.54336.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <472DDEA2.7080804@FreeBSD.org> <009a01c81efe$be1f54f0$c801000a@balgaa> <20071104194331.b4fe5f45.cyb.@gmx.net>
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Andreas Rudisch wrote: > or try the boot floopies: > ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/floppies/ > ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.0-BETA2/floppies/ There's no floppy drive in the X series ThinkPads, so you'll end up using an USB floppy drive. This will probably lead to the same BTX loader problem as with USB CD-ROM drives. The same is probably applicable to booting from USB sticks, and I'm not even sure FreeBSD supports booting off those. AFAIK the only non-PXE alternative is using the UltraBase docking station, which has an optical drive bay connected via ATAPI. But it's rather expensive; here in .nl, it's about EUR 175 for the dock, and EUR 130 for the CD-RW/DVD drive (not even a DVD writer!!).
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