how do you set up the external hard drive so that I can boot from it? Thanks,
Jason On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Eric Lin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:13:26PM -0800, Jason Snyder wrote: > > To Whom it May Concern, > > > > I have a computer with windows Vista and am having problems creating a > > partition due to pagefiles. I was wondering if it is possible to just > > install/run linux from an external hard drive where I can easily have > > partitions of 250 GB as opposed to 7 GB, which is the maximum partition I > > can get on my C drive. > > This doesn't really concern me, but I'll reply anyway. ;-) > > Yes, you can install an OS on an external hard drive or even a USB flash > drive as long as your BIOS supports booting from it. Most modern systems > can boot from a storage device connected via USB, so this shouldn't be a > problem. I'm assuming your computer is relatively new because it can run > Windows Vista. > > -Eric > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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