From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 09:09:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC43116A417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [82.208.36.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCF713C4B3 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C4319E02A; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:09:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r3a200.net.upc.cz [213.220.192.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF9219E027; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:09:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <472EDDB4.7080807@quip.cz> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:09:08 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: cz, cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimitry Andric 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> <472E1F4F.7030409@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <472E1F4F.7030409@andric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "cyb." <"cyb."@gmx.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Balgansuren Batsukh Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 boot on Lenovo X60 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:09:18 -0000 Dimitry Andric wrote: > Andreas Rudisch wrote: [...] > 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. About a year ago I created USB stick with GRUB instead of BTX loader for booting on CD-ROM less Sun Fire servers. It works well. So this is the possible way to go. You can create just bootable USB stick from miniboot ISO (30MB) and then install from internal CD-ROM or from network (FTP, NFS...). Or you can create completely working instalation media with packeges etc on USB stick bigger than 512MB. Miroslav Lachman