Installation from USB cdrom/dvd drive?

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 09:08:45PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 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).
> 

Yes, it supports PXE.  I suppose this is covered in
the Handbook.

-- 
Steve