On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I wish I could do that. Taking the CDs out of the drive can be > a struggle when you restart the machine. My current machine can't > boot from flash drives. If I buy a usb hard drive, then it might > work.
If it can't boot from a flash drive, then it's unlikely to be able to boot from a USB hard drive. > But those aren't exactly cheap. They seem to cost considerably > more than regular hard drives. Get an old EIDE laptop drive. The most number of partitions you can have on a drive is 15 or 16 anyways (you can have more but the OS won't see them). So you only need at most a 20 GB HDD (or get a larger HDD and play musical chairs). Then get a IDE to USB converter for about $25. > It would be cool to put an army of live cds on one usb hard drive, and > then create a boot option letting you select which one you want to > use. That's pretty close to my current setup. I designated one partition as vfat with a grub menu for all the distros on the drive. All remaining partitions are individual OSes with grub installed to the first sector of the partition. Here is an older photo of what that looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwcitek/2547600614/ Notice one of the options is Knoppix. Regards, - Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
