On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Brian Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have this IBM 300pl 600Mhz that I've been running Linux on and it runs > great. The problem is that the hard drive bearings are starting to fail > and > creating more noise then I care for. > > The Linux install takes up only about 3gigs of space so, I had this great > idea of replacing the hard drive with an 8gig USB thumb drive. The > problem > is the computer is so old it doesn't know how to boot from a USB device. > One option I've thought of (but don't know how to go about) is to put the > boot partition on a CD or floppy just to get it started and then have the > rest on the USB drive. > > Can any Linux geek out there think of a clever way of doing this? > Grub supports CDs so you may consider putting GRUB on a CD and booting from it, then having it choose the USB drive. Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
