From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 13 14:11:09 2005 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 AD1E116A41F for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:11:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118C943D48 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:11:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so730507wra for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:11:08 -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=g6paG+8SitXo/EIye/VQ+HF1ElCyjWH0UcVkZO/Ac6Od/Go2yTU4++NFeVHzjJQe/dQl0xVfYITX40Wfh9Vfeo1E9sjYFZzIFx/gkmE0Z07AM27bneIT1MaWYY3uxi/ZR1175NSgk9xRLnrzIcxL1PHSlnrtLy4Vkay7BroEdTU= Received: by 10.54.57.32 with SMTP id f32mr2551962wra; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:11:08 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: Kliment Andreev In-Reply-To: <42FD1D54.10000@runbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050812025225.5271.qmail@web31601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <42FD1D54.10000@runbox.com> Cc: talk@lists.nycbug.org, Maude User , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive? 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: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:11:09 -0000 On 8/12/05, Kliment Andreev wrote: > Maude User wrote: > > Thanks for this info. > > > > The handbook chapter on BIOS (see below) doesn't mention "USB" but it > > says the machine > > can boot from "Removable Devices" so it sounds like your first > > suggestion about booting from > > removable drives would work. >=20 > Even if you boot from the USB CD, there is a chance that FreeBSD load > won't recognize the USB chipset, so you won't be able to choose the > source for the installation media. His board has an Intel ICH5R. I just got done setting up a server with this chip and USB works just fine: > dmesg |grep -i usb uhci0: port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhci1: port 0xec00-0xec1f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0 usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 ehci0: mem 0xfe7ffc00-0xfe7fffff irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0 usb2: EHCI version 1.0 usb2: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2: on ehci0 usb2: USB revision 2.0 umass0: Genesys Logic USB Storage Device, rev 1.10/1.13, addr 2 umass0: Acer Labs USB 2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 2 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device