Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:26:14 +0200 From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe@uffe.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD Message-ID: <4CBE8B86.9060608@uffe.org> In-Reply-To: <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> <op.vj5o9ixxhtl4zj@ack5833s2.ad.service.osu.edu> <20101017143901.GA71132@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010171215030.96626@wonkity.com> <20101019074615.GA2183@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010191448390.6689@wonkity.com> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org>
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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 > <<wherever>> 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
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