Installing from CD/DVD only?

Tue Apr 7 06:57:26 PDT 2009

On Tue, April 7, 2009 7:41 am, Colin Adams wrote:
> Would I be correct in saying that you need a CD or DVD drive attached
> to the computer in order to install DragonFly?
>
> If so, would a USB-attached one be sufficient?

You can install from a USB flash drive, if your motherboard supports
booting from a flash drive.  Michael Neumann put together a way to build a
bootable image for that.  I think it's this file:

ftp://ftp.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-img-2.2.0_REL.img.gz

(You'll get better speed from a mirror -
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mirrors/)