Hi Thanks for the prompt reply I will try the USB option first and if that fails I will go down the partition path, once again thank you
Regards Mike On Dec 18, 11:02 pm, Janaka <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
