Re: Booting FreeBSD Install Floppy with USB Floppy drive?

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From
Jean-Pierre PARISY <jpparisy@teaser.fr>
Date
15 Dec 2002 08:31:22
Subject
Re: Booting FreeBSD Install Floppy with USB Floppy drive?
Message-ID
200212151630.gBFGUG04015123@jpp.homeunix.org


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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:18:51 -0800 (PST), Donald Burr of Borg
<dburr@borg-cube.com> wrote:

> * is there any way to get booting from a USB floppy drive to work?

I don't know.

> * if not, can the FreeBSD installer be booted in any other way? Can I
> somehow boot the installer floppy image over the network using PXE? Or
> is there any other method? (if it helps, I have a FreeBSD box that is
> already up and running on my network, and can set it up for net booting,
> etc.)

Look at the article in /usr/share/doc/en/articles/pxe, it reads
something like that :

This article details the method used to allow machines to install
FreeBSD using the Intel PXE method of booting a machine over a network.


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