[nycbug-talk] laptop?

[Jeff Quast]

On 9/20/06, Okan Demirmen <okan at demirmen.com> wrote:
> On Wed 2006.09.20 at 09:12 -0400, Josh McCormack wrote:
> > Anyone have a USB floppy or CD drive I could borrow, or want to help
> > me do the PXE booting?
>
> also consider a usb key.
>

Or a laptop 2.5" IDE to 3.5" IDE converter. About $2-$5, probobly can
find it localy. Install it as if it were its own local disk on a
desktop machine, then swap it back into the laptop.

Of course, windows will puke on this, but any BSD would purr along
happily inside a completely different machine provided it is the same
architecture (i386)

Worse case, you might have to boot bsd.rd and modify /etc/fstab with
ed if your hard drive isn't installed using wd0 on the desktop
machine.