Boot and Install from USB?

Fri Jul 28 05:46:06 UTC 2006

On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Floppy and CD-ROM drives, why do I need them? They take up to much
> chassis real estate and I never use them after the server is in
> production. Why can't I do all this stuff with USB?
>
> If I got a USB flash, USB CD-ROM, and/or a USB floppy drive what could
> I do with it?
>
> * Boot into DOS to run BIOS updates?
> * Load the FreeBSD CD to a flash drive and boot / install from it?
>
> I see no reason to keeping buy them, there like tits on a bull.

None of my servers have floppies or cdrom or any optical drives.  I  
keep a couple floppies and a dvd and a cdrom around and if I need on  
I plug it in for the duration of the need...

Chad