Well, most OSes still distribute their installers as ISOs.  I usually
do my installs inside VMs these days because I am lazy(attach the
target disk via USB and then install to it), but the other day I
actually did a USB CD install because I had the drive laying around
and it was less work at the time than converting the ISO for use on a
thumbdrive or fishing up an external drive enclosure.

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Soren Kristensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote:
>> Soren wrote:
>>
>>> No CD/DVD ROM support yet, but are looking into adding it.
>>
>> Please!  For one-off installations on Soekris, the lack of BIOS
>> support for CD boot is my #1 hassle.  Sure, one can boot over the
>> network, or remove the disk and do the install on another machine,
>> but all of those add extra work.
>
> Maybe I wasn't that clear, so:
>
> 1) The SATA boot code on the net6501 do have CD/DVD support.
>
> 2) The USB boot code do not have CD/DVD support, but I'm looking into
> adding it, don't seems to complicated. It will then be for the
> net4801/net5501 and net6501.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Soren Kristensen
>
> CEO & Chief Engineer
> Soekris Engineering, Inc.
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