FreeBSD requires a CD drive

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Vinnyt

I have tried to install FreeBSD15 on a modern laptop (MSI Creator M16 B13VE-623AU, Corei7 and DDR5 ram) and an older desktop with a basic AMD CPU and ddr4 ram.
In both cases the installer starts from a USB drive and then fails because it is looking for a CD to install from. Tried different USB sticks and every ISO/disk image that is suitable.
I burned an image onto a CD and used an external CD drive and FreeBSD installs perfectly.
Strange that I can't use a USB drive.
 
That's weird, does the system that you're using generally support booting from CD with a USB drive?

As far as USB goes, I generally use one of the specialist utilities to put the file on the USB stick. I can't remember last time whether I used Rufus or unetbootin to get the files on there. In the past I've used both ventoy and baleena etcher. If you're doing it from a FreeBSD install, I think that unetbootin is the only one that's available in pkgs.
 
Hi, Vinnyt
A couple of questions,
1. Which images did you use exactly?
2. When you selected the USB drive from the boot options, did it show multiple options for the same drive?
3. What was the message do you get that asks you for a CD?
 
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