Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:22 +0000
> "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> > The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone has
>> > USB so should install using that instead of floppies.
>>
>> Not true on a very old computer (especially USB)
>
> That's why I said "the argument", implying that it's something I don't
> agree with :)
> I do think we need to be careful to remember that plenty of people
> don't have modern setups.

Also, boot-from-USB is not entirely standardized.  In that regard it's
sort of in the same position boot-from-CD was in in the 1990s.  For
example, Intel Macs won't boot from USB unless the drive has a GPT
partition table.