Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:29:10 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0? Message-ID: <AANLkTi=XTzbeqosE4LVyifYd5doghnTrKmC7%2BZ2jemky@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101208112741.7db7e6ac@core.draftnet> References: <4cff688e.DMzgcRTJhPHF8CWP%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <20101208112741.7db7e6ac@core.draftnet>
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:22 +0000 > "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> > The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone has >> > USB so should install using that instead of floppies. >> >> Not true on a very old computer (especially USB) > > That's why I said "the argument", implying that it's something I don't > agree with :) > I do think we need to be careful to remember that plenty of people > don't have modern setups. Also, boot-from-USB is not entirely standardized. In that regard it's sort of in the same position boot-from-CD was in in the 1990s. For example, Intel Macs won't boot from USB unless the drive has a GPT partition table.
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