On 20/10/10 04.29, 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?
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?
An optical drive will propably not fit in side a 9" or 10" notebook
(netbook)...
If you are going for a netbook I'd go for an external USB optical drive
- all netbooks that I've come across can boot from external usb medias.
Personally I prefer to install stable FreeBSD from USB memory stick.
Since 8.0 FreeBSD has shipped a "memstick" disk image that nicely fits
into a 1G USB memory stick.
See:
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img
/Uffe
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