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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:46:04 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Boot and Install from USB?
Message-ID:  <CB5CA723-8609-4174-B3F3-176F6D39EC5B@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0607272232w2fba906ai9b274ec873cf7341@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ef10de9a0607272232w2fba906ai9b274ec873cf7341@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much
> chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in
> production. Why can't I do all this stuff with USB?
>
> If I got a USB flash, USB CD-ROM, and/or a USB floppy drive what could
> I do with it?
>
> * Boot into DOS to run BIOS updates?
> * Load the FreeBSD CD to a flash drive and boot / install from it?
>
> I see no reason to keeping buy them, there like tits on a bull.

None of my servers have floppies or cdrom or any optical drives.  I  
keep a couple floppies and a dvd and a cdrom around and if I need on  
I plug it in for the duration of the need...

Chad



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