On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:44 -0800, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > Mark C. Ballew wrote: > > Tim Hammerquist wrote: > > > Bob Royal wrote: > > > > The x86 version also comes with a live CD. > > My understanding is that a PowerBook can boot from an external drive. It > > may be easier to pick up an inexpensive enclosure on ebay and use your > > $50 used 10GB SuSE drive to see if Linux-on-ppc is worth a shot. Failing > > the 10GB drive, I have some larger disks you could borrow. > > Ah yes. The external drive option. Well, the only question remaining > is, will the ubuntu/ydl install disks support installing to an external > firewire/usb HDD. I have an enclosure and a small IDE HDD around here > somewhere; I might just have to try that when my ubuntu CD-ROMs come in > the mail. :)
At least in the PC world, if you can boot from the usb device from the bios, you can set up an initrd to have all the usb stuff you need to get the system up and booted from the external disk. I'd assume there'd be little difference on the PPC arch. If Ubuntu and ydl don't support that out of the box, you can always build your own initrd, but I'm willing to say it will work OK. Mark
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