From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 13 13:13:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E706106566B for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:13:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djr@pdconsec.net) Received: from ipmail02.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60B28FC1B for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:13:23 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAMLo/EqWZcBC/2dsb2JhbADVKoQ8BIFt Received: from goliath.pdconsec.net (HELO smtp.pdconsec.net) ([150.101.192.66]) by ipmail02.adl6.internode.on.net with SMTP; 13 Nov 2009 23:43:21 +1030 Received: from mail1.pdconsec.net ([192.168.1.41] helo=mail1.pdconsec.net) with IPv4:25 by smtp.pdconsec.net; 13 Nov 2009 22:48:26 +1100 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:09:53 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Thread-Topic: atom based servers Thread-Index: AcpkJ4cr2W5fOWjcQmeHBdGcMlODpgAOw/NW References: <4AFB3A2A.4040303@brianwhalen.net> <4AFCF76A.2020100@gmail.com> From: "David Rawling" To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: atom based servers 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, 13 Nov 2009 13:13:24 -0000 Jack Barnett opined: >Curious, how did you get it installed? I used the AMD64 MemStick image on a Corsair 2GB key. It's one I had lying around and that wasn't 8x larger than the image. >My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't=20 >think booting from USB-CDROM is supported > >Booting from USB Flash drive works? It did for me - I never had an intention of putting an optical drive in that server (none of my servers have opticals any more). Nothing strange in the BIOS - just the normal boot options. IME these things are finally getting to the "just works" stage. Thankfully! Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: djr@pdconsec.net