Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:52:16 HST From: knowtree@aloha.com To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Installing from USB drive Message-ID: <200810040052.m940qGH5026350@yoda.pixi.com>
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In general, is it possible to install FreeBSD from CD-ROM using a USB plug-in drive? More specifically, I am thinking about picking up a Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 convertable tablet PC. It does not have a built-in optical drive, but Fujitsu does list two external USB drives, one a Dual-Layer DVD Writer, the other a DVD/CD-RW combo drive. I submitted my question to their tech support and am awaiting an answer, but in the meantime I thought I should ask here, too. Besides the obvious question of whether or not the P1620 will boot from a USB optical drive, I wonder if the FreeBSD boot loader knows how to load the installation kernal from a USB drive. Then there is the issue of making this a dual boot system. By the way, the T1010 has a built-in optical drive, and the T2010 has it in the docking station. This makes the T1010 the best choice in terms of compatibility, but I like the smaller size of the P1620 and rarely use an optical drive. Too bad the P1620 is not like the Apple Air, which can use an optical drive in another computer on the network to install OS X and applications. Gary Dunn Honolulu Open Slate Project http://openslate.net/ mailto:osp@aloha.com
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