Has anyone tried installing FreeBSD 9.0 to an external HDD?

I guess that's the same as the normal installation. If BIOS can see the external HDD, make the installation on this disk and set BIOS to boot from the external. I made something similar on my FreeNAS. Just my external HDD was a USB flash :D
 
Yes. There have been many threads here about it. USB drives are sometimes slow to be recognized. Adding
/boot/loader.conf
Code: 
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
kern.cam.scsi_delay=10000
helps with that.
 
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