It can be done, but how easily depends on whether your laptop bios allows booting from a USB drive. If it does, all you have to do is press F10 (or whatever key on your laptop that gives you the boot menu) at boot time and select the USB drive. If it doesn't, then you'll have to install a new bootloader or append to the windows bootloader menu a USB boot string. Both of these can be a bit of a pain in getting to work. If I was you, I'll repartition the Vista drive and allow for linux to live natively on the same HDD. Most new distros has NTFS(3g) support and can do a safe re-partioning of an existing drive. All you need to do is to make sure you have enough freespace and defrag it so that information is not all over the place. Cheers Janaka
On Dec 19, 12:39 am, MikeBWFC <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi I was wondering if someone could give me a bit of advice, I have a > desktop computer at the moment which I have it setup to dual boot with > Windows XP or Ubuntu 8.10, the linux partition is on a separate Hard > drive that I fitted to the machine. > > My question is I am shortly changing my desktop to a new laptop which > will probably have Vista installed and was wondering if could fit the > linux drive into a HHD enclosure, connect via USB and be able to > excess Ubuntu. Or has anybody any other idea's I could use please. > > Best Regards > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
