Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 21:08:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation from USB cdrom/dvd drive? Message-ID: <200605131908.k4DJ8jJ4072154@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20060513175812.GA23086@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > I'm setting up a blade system where the slave nodes > do not have a cdrom/dvd drive. The motherboards > in the nodes are Tyan K8SR. Is it possible to > boot FreeBSD on this board from a USB cdrom/dvd > drive? Yes, if the BIOS supports it, it should work. However, it might be more convenient to perform a networked installation via PXE (provided that your blade system supports PXE booting). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "I learned Java 3 years before Python. It was my language of choice. It took me two weekends with Python before I was more productive with it than with Java." -- Anthony Roberts
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