Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. Thanks again, MC I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem. Since I was only using those

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-16 Thread Eric Schuele
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. I''m interested in the answer myself Did a little googling, found this (not encouraging) post

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-15 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Eric, thank you very much for your help. I'll have a look if my BIOS settings enable me to boot from there. I'll post here any successes! Thanks again, MC 2005/11/14, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marco Calviani wrote: Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-14 Thread Eric Schuele
Marco Calviani wrote: Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD newbie. Could you give me

Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-12 Thread Marco Calviani
Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD newbie. Could you give me some hints on how to