I think newer BIOSes have configuration option to boot off of USB devices first, if any of them have a bootable image. At least you can on my desktop. Hopefully the laptops have caught onto that trend as well.
-Mark On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > Are you wanting to boot Linux off the external drive? I don't believe > that is an easy thing to do. You probably want to dual boot linux and > windows on your internal drive. If you need more space, you can > subsequently set up mount points on the external drive for things like > /home, /opt, /usr/local, etc. > > Jonathan > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external > > drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop. > > > > I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and > > an external drive is the cheapest solution. > > > > I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free > > port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only > > the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work. > > > > Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated. > > > > Regards > > > > Ronald Bradford > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
