Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. It's slow, since BIOSes tend to use USB 1.x speeds, and even that > not in a really fast way. So the big images are best to be > avoided. Though probably it's still faster than floppies.
It is significantly faster than a floppy, and comparable to a CD when you take into account the time required to spin up the drive and the slow seek times. It is also a lot less hassle than either (at least with modern PCs which have USB connectors in front) > 2. Accessing the root filesystem - the USB drivers have to be either > statically compiled into the kernel or be loaded by the boot loader > through BIOS (maybe through an analog of initrd ram disk - I'm not > sure what advances have been done to the FreeBSD boot loader > nowadays). The required drivers are already in GENERIC. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
