How do I find out if the motherboard supports it? (I bought the machine in question in April 2003)
I think what I will probably do is buy a cheap USB DVD drive (I have other reasons to do this), install Linux on the machine, create a KVM guest for DragonFly, and attach the USB drive to the KVM guest. 2009/4/7 Justin C. Sherrill <[email protected]>: > On Tue, April 7, 2009 7:41 am, Colin Adams wrote: >> Would I be correct in saying that you need a CD or DVD drive attached >> to the computer in order to install DragonFly? >> >> If so, would a USB-attached one be sufficient? > > You can install from a USB flash drive, if your motherboard supports > booting from a flash drive. Michael Neumann put together a way to build a > bootable image for that. I think it's this file: > > ftp://ftp.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-img-2.2.0_REL.img.gz > > (You'll get better speed from a mirror - > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mirrors/) > > >
