On Thu 2005.09.29 at 21:18 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2005-09-29 at 20:37:11 Marcus Glocker wrote: > > > I am soon receiving a IBM Thinkpad X40 to use it with OpenBSD-current. As > > I don't really want to have an Ultrabase, I am wondering if it's possible > > to boot OpenBSD with a USB-CDROM. Any experiences? > > I had no problems booting OpenBSD 3.7 release, and recent 3.8 > snapshots on my X41, using an external Lite-On DVD+-RW drive. The > UltraBase is somewhat nice, but way too expensive IMHO. :-) > > Since I now have given back the drive to the person I borrowed it > from, I'm still searching for a nice alternative way to boot OpenBSD > installation. Anyone have experience booting OpenBSD from a USB > stick? My BIOS seems to support it, I'll go look into it tomorrow, or > or this weekend, probably.
yes. if i'm on my network, i use pxe. otherwise, i carry around a usb stick just in case.
