Is booting/installing from USB CDROM considered supported?

[Dorin H]

Doesn't work here to boot & install from USB cdrom.
Use USB FDD to boot and do a net install. Or boot the
same and use the USB CDROM as media if you've burnt
the images or you don't want a net install (works for
stable, haven't tested current yet in this scenario).
/Dorin.

PS. Hopefully your CD-RW drive is supported and
recognized by the installation distribution.

--- Martin Nilsson <martin at mullet.se> wrote:
> Martin Nilsson wrote:
> 
> > I tried to install our CD/FDD-less servers from a
> CD-RW drive connected 
> > on the USB port, 
> > I'll try with a fresh 5.2-BETA later today and see
> what happens with it. 
> > in the meantime I just want to ask:
> 
> The 5.2-BETA CDROM hangs, it prints something like
> found /BOOT/LOADER 
> ... and then nothing else happens.
> 
> Does anyone know what might be the problem and where
> one should look to 
> try to fix it?
> 
> The motherboard is a Supermicro P4SGE with an
> external 52x Asus CD-RW 
> unit. I have tried with and without USB FDD, no
> differnce. WinXP 
> installs as as usual (but very slowly) on this
> combination.
> 
> -- 
> Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia
> AB, Malmö, SWEDEN
> E-mail: martin at mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-606170,
> Web: www.mullet.se
> 
> Our business is well engineered servers optimised
> for FreeBSD & Linux
> 
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