On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:50:05 -0400, Mike Jeays <[email protected]>
wrote:
On October 19, 2010 10:29:46 pm Gary Kline wrote:
$150 is seriously in my price range [!] But what about the
optical drive? If I can buy one on sale and install FBSD from a
CD or DVD, do all optivcal drive fit all notebooks?
(( I remember seeing ads on amazon.com saying that "people who
purchased this notebook have also bought:)
With a few things that I probably will buy. An optical, a 16 or
32G SSD ... &c.) So if there is a fire-sale at Costco or
<<wherever>> for an HP 9" or 10 Atom notebook, will I be able
to use another vendor's optical drive?
gary
PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX
780 days :-)
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I would expect a USB optical drive to work. I plugged an old DVD drive
into
one of those boxes that hold an IDE hard disk and plug into a USB port,
and it
worked fine on my (Linux) ASUS EeePC 1000. It looked pretty amateurish,
but it
did work.
BTW, if you're thinking of getting the optical drive just for the install,
it isn't necessary. Memstick install is really the way to go with these
devices:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-BOOT-MEDIA
To be honest, though, getting FreeBSD running properly on one of these is
really more of a hobbyist project at the moment, and requires some
research, time, and experimentation. Yes, I have mine mostly running like
I want, but I'd be a bit pressed to describe in detail all the steps I
took, but it was more than a few, and my requirements were minimal. I
could not give a solid reason for using FreeBSD on my netbook other than I
felt like it, and because all things being equal I prefer *BSD. Maybe with
lots of community participation enough documentation could be generated to
make it more straightforward, but that is not the current state of affairs.
Brian
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