From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 06:53:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A631065674 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:53:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uffe@uffe.org) Received: from mail.starion.dk (mx0.starion.dk [83.95.112.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7436A8FC16 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12830 invoked by uid 528); 20 Oct 2010 06:26:39 -0000 Received: from 212.130.59.4 ([212.130.59.4]) by mail.starion.dk ([192.168.0.100]) with ESMTP via TCP; 20 Oct 2010 06:26:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4CBE8B86.9060608@uffe.org> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:26:14 +0200 From: Uffe Jakobsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> <20101017143901.GA71132@current.Sisis.de> <20101019074615.GA2183@current.Sisis.de> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:53:00 -0000 On 20/10/10 04.29, Gary Kline wrote: > > > $150 is seriously in my price range [!] But what about the > optical drive? If I can buy one on sale and install FBSD from a > CD or DVD, do all optivcal drive fit all notebooks? > > > With a few things that I probably will buy. An optical, a 16 or > 32G SSD ...&c.) So if there is a fire-sale at Costco or > <> for an HP 9" or 10 Atom notebook, will I be able > to use another vendor's optical drive? An optical drive will propably not fit in side a 9" or 10" notebook (netbook)... If you are going for a netbook I'd go for an external USB optical drive - all netbooks that I've come across can boot from external usb medias. Personally I prefer to install stable FreeBSD from USB memory stick. Since 8.0 FreeBSD has shipped a "memstick" disk image that nicely fits into a 1G USB memory stick. See: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img /Uffe