Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:15:24 -0400 From: Brian McKeon <backyard1454-nospam@yahoo.com> To: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot FreeBSD from USB external drive Message-ID: <44CBB3CC.1020809@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060729174428.GA11134@sysadm.stc> References: <20060714105532.GA46694@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> <20060714135947.85241.qmail@web81610.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060729174428.GA11134@sysadm.stc>
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Igor Robul wrote: >On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:59:47AM -0700, backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > >>just try running the installation cd with the USB >>device and see what happens. Make sure your setting it >>up on the right drive (da0 assuming you have IDE >>hardrives) >> >> >Not so good advice - flash memory has limited write count. Instead you >can look at Frenzy 1.0 and then use it as template. > >http://www.frenzy.org.ua/eng/ > >It has versions for CD and USB. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Fair enough, but if it was a USB Hard drive then my advice should be ok correct??? I'm just wondering because one of the yaks I gotta shave is making a bootable recovery system with one of my USB hardrives. Even with a flash disk you should be ok for 10,000 writes which should be adequate to bring up a test system to play around with. Although I will admit it isn't the most reliable system waiting for the transistors to go bad. brian
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