From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 08:00:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE5616A4DF for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5AB43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:00:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so696380uge for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:00:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o3LdbWIrX3Zs5Q92EzRYMpTOQvHNbFU07BsPdN64Ej1HdO1c2FE+qQw6gxsV+ALkfw8EYftEL+xOW+X6D4V1ymBCONqLhiFhRzyBxXvR5ITQoO03jK9Ey/mp4/uCCYCsqIwfATz4uuFiHjeVCOrq8ejpPc6ty+Z/5TNSM3YReBU= Received: by 10.78.193.5 with SMTP id q5mr800723huf; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:00:22 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Boot and Install from USB? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:00:24 -0000 On 7/28/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > > 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 keep buying 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... > > > > Been there done that. It's a pain in the butt: > > 1. Power down > 2. Take cover off > 3. Plug in drive > 4. Put cover back on > 5. Power on > 6. Re-enable BIOS support for device. > 7. Do what needs to be done > 8. Power down > 9. Take cover off > 10. Unplug drive > 11. Put cover back on > 12. Power on > 13. Disable BIOS support for device. > > Ok I just bought some stuff to experiment with: * USB Floppy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821103510 * USB to IDE Adapter: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156101 * USB Flash Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820233008 Well see what happens! What I really want is to install FreeBSD using the USB Flash Drive. IIRC from a post long ago FreeBSD had problems with this. IIRC dd would format the USB Flash drive in ISO9660, Like a CD. So I think I'll have to roll my own images. Maybe the RELENG team could make USB Flash into an official image, like the CD ISOs, for FreeBSD 6.2. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/