On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:55:17PM +0000, Sung N. Cho wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a laptop (2years old, 500Mhz Celeron system).  Apparently the
> cdrom is now missing some barrels and sometimes fail to read certain
> cds.  I now have two options, either to get a USB externel cdrom rw
> drive for $159 or replace the cdrom through the manufacturer for twice
> the money, $250 and it's not even cd rw!  I was wondering, are the
> floppy installation disks of netbsd able to read files from the USB
> connected externel cdrom within sysinst during clean install on new
> hdd?  I usually install via ethernet but at my parents' place, they
> don't have ethernet connection and I really need to install right out of
> cd's.  If sysinst can detect and enable USB externel cdroms, then I'll
> go out and buy the externel USB cdrom right away.  If not, I'll need to
> replace the cdrom through manufacturer.  Thank you.

In 1.6 there is umass support in both INSTALL and INSTALL_LAPTOP.
But before buying the drive, you should check if it works with NetBSD.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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