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Subject: Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive
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Hi Eric and list,
unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB
devices.
I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users.

Thanks again,
MC


>
> I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem.
>
> Since I was only using those for experimentation, I never modified my
> boot loader. My BIOS provides a boot menu for selecting the boot
> device, of which "external USB device" is an option. I found this
> cleaner, since when not using those devices I do not have to go through
> the FreeBSD boot menu.
>
> Hints?
> For my situation... I booted from the CD. When asked to slice and
> partition my disk... I chose the external USB device. I selected the
> 'standard boot loader'. Then the rest of the magic is handled by my BIOS.
>
> Don't know if that helps you much.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Eric
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