On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:22 +0000 > "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> > The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone has >> > USB so should install using that instead of floppies. >> >> Not true on a very old computer (especially USB) > > That's why I said "the argument", implying that it's something I don't > agree with :) > I do think we need to be careful to remember that plenty of people > don't have modern setups.
Also, boot-from-USB is not entirely standardized. In that regard it's sort of in the same position boot-from-CD was in in the 1990s. For example, Intel Macs won't boot from USB unless the drive has a GPT partition table. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
