> I'm short on places to hook up hard drives and considering removing the > internal DVD/cdrom drive to be replaced with a 500gb hard drive. > > So wondering if I can make my OS see a usb or firewire connected > CD-Rom in the event I needed to boot from live-cd for emergency > maintenance or the like. > > Or if the working os is diabled or unusable, is it likely the drivers > on the live-CD would find a usb or firewire connected cd-rom drive?
The drivers on the LiveCD should see an usb or firewire connected optical device. The bigger problem is if the BIOS has boot support for usb or firewire optical devices. I've not yet seen an x86 system that supports booting from firewire devices. And some old x86 systems do not support booting from usb mass storage devices. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
