Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:51:33 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: babkin@users.sf.net Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <868xsv2nmi.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <3362285.1138799355022.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net> (Sergey Babkin's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:09:14 -0600 (CST)") References: <3362285.1138799355022.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net>
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Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> writes: > 1. It's slow, since BIOSes tend to use USB 1.x speeds, and even that > not in a really fast way. So the big images are best to be > avoided. Though probably it's still faster than floppies. It is significantly faster than a floppy, and comparable to a CD when you take into account the time required to spin up the drive and the slow seek times. It is also a lot less hassle than either (at least with modern PCs which have USB connectors in front) > 2. Accessing the root filesystem - the USB drivers have to be either > statically compiled into the kernel or be loaded by the boot loader > through BIOS (maybe through an analog of initrd ram disk - I'm not > sure what advances have been done to the FreeBSD boot loader > nowadays). The required drivers are already in GENERIC. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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