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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:54:53 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        Noah <admin2@enabled.com>, Noah <admin2@enabled.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070310175332.0254ecc8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external 
drive.  If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install 
from a mounted file system instead.

         -Derek

At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote:
>More details:
>
>I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to 
>"choose installation media" and choose "CD/DVD" the response is "No CD/DVD 
>devices found!"
>
>what can I do about this?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Noah
>
>
>Noah wrote:
>>Hi there,
>>is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive?
>>I am at a loss of how to do it.
>>Cheers,
>>Noah
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