Installation from USB cdrom/dvd drive?

[Oliver Fromme]

Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
 > I'm setting up a blade system where the slave nodes 
 > do not have a cdrom/dvd drive.  The motherboards
 > in the nodes are Tyan K8SR.  Is it possible to
 > boot FreeBSD on this board from a USB cdrom/dvd 
 > drive?

Yes, if the BIOS supports it, it should work.

However, it might be more convenient to perform a
networked installation via PXE (provided that your
blade system supports PXE booting).

Best regards
   Oliver

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