Re: Is booting/installing from USB CDROM considered supported?

From: Dorin H (bj93542_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/05/03

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To: Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se>

    Doesn't work here to boot & install from USB cdrom.
    Use USB FDD to boot and do a net install. Or boot the
    same and use the USB CDROM as media if you've burnt
    the images or you don't want a net install (works for
    stable, haven't tested current yet in this scenario).
    /Dorin.

    PS. Hopefully your CD-RW drive is supported and
    recognized by the installation distribution.

    --- Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se> wrote:
    > Martin Nilsson wrote:
    >
    > > I tried to install our CD/FDD-less servers from a
    > CD-RW drive connected
    > > on the USB port,
    > > I'll try with a fresh 5.2-BETA later today and see
    > what happens with it.
    > > in the meantime I just want to ask:
    >
    > The 5.2-BETA CDROM hangs, it prints something like
    > found /BOOT/LOADER
    > ... and then nothing else happens.
    >
    > Does anyone know what might be the problem and where
    > one should look to
    > try to fix it?
    >
    > The motherboard is a Supermicro P4SGE with an
    > external 52x Asus CD-RW
    > unit. I have tried with and without USB FDD, no
    > differnce. WinXP
    > installs as as usual (but very slowly) on this
    > combination.
    >
    > --
    > Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia
    > AB, Malmö, 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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