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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