From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 18 18:34:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66C237B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCB243E75 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7J1YNgD012356; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:04:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Booting on a removable disk ? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Nephtali Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020817113140.GA2969@nebula.wanadoo.fr> References: <20020817113140.GA2969@nebula.wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 19 Aug 2002 11:04:22 +0930 Message-Id: <1029720864.440.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.5 () IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 21:01, Aur=E9lien Nephtali wrote: > I'm planning to buy a USB to IDE Adapter (BTW if someone has a list > of those supprted by FreeBSD, mail me :p) to put a -CURRENT on it. >=20 > I would like to know if this is possible to boot from the "USB disk" ? I doubt your BIOS would support such a thing.. FreeBSD _should_ work if the BIOS boots off it but it's a bit hard to test :) --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message