Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:11:39 +0100 From: Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is booting/installing from USB CDROM considered supported? Message-ID: <3FCD8CAB.6030801@mullet.se> In-Reply-To: <3FCB1AC0.5070109@mullet.se> References: <3FCB1AC0.5070109@mullet.se>
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Martin Nilsson wrote: > I tried to install our CD/FDD-less servers from a CD-RW drive connected= =20 > on the USB port,=20 > I'll try with a fresh 5.2-BETA later today and see what happens with it= =2E=20 > in the meantime I just want to ask: The 5.2-BETA CDROM hangs, it prints something like found /BOOT/LOADER=20 =2E.. and then nothing else happens. Does anyone know what might be the problem and where one should look to=20 try to fix it? The motherboard is a Supermicro P4SGE with an external 52x Asus CD-RW=20 unit. I have tried with and without USB FDD, no differnce. WinXP=20 installs as as usual (but very slowly) on this combination. --=20 Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malm=F6, SWEDEN E-mail: martin@mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, Web: www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimised for FreeBSD & Linux
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