On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> My new hard drive is partitioned and formatted and ready for the OS to be > installed. I've not before installed on an external drive; I've always > rebooted and installed on the internal drive. I have an internal optical > drive, and an external one that connects via USB (as does the new hard > drive). Google searches found information on how to install on a USB drive, > but not how to install the complete OS on an external drive. I'll be > installing Slackware-13.0 on it. > > I'd appreciate suggestions on how best to proceed. > > Rich > I strongly recommend that you put the currently external drive into its final working place before installing the OS. Then, attach the drives with the data you want to migrate to the new drive as external drives. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
