On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:22:38PM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Are you aware that the FreeBSD CD:s (both 4.9 & 5.2) are not bootable on > a CD-ROM connected via USB? Both try to boot but hangs somewhere in the > loader. This is on our P4 Supermicro serverboards. As usual Win2K, 2K3 & > RedHat just works. An external USB2.0 connected Asus CD-RW drive > (52x/24x/52x) with power supply costs about $70 so this is really > nothing expensive or fancy today.
Please do not assume that because it costs $70 it is universally availible. There are a lot of people who cannot afford this: the unemployed school children retired persons (sometimes) people with families to support :) Unfortuantely I feel this does need to be taken in to account here. While I totally empathise with Scott's problem and the lack of time to do things the way we have been, we need to appreciate that telling everyone to burn a CD to install FreeBSD (thus incur costs if you don't have a CD burner, and wouldn't need one if not to install FreeBSD) is not far from the "You must pay us to buy this on CD" approach (openbsd) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
