I have installed Ubuntu on my external hard disk. I had installed it in the normal way we do it for internal hard disk. The main problem i got was that i was able to boot the os on my pc but nowhere else . Lot of errors came when i had booted it on my friends laptop.
Saleem Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/07, Puneet Lakhina wrote: > > Hi, > I have recently bought a Dell Laptop which has come with vista > preinstalled. > In my earlier post some people had recommended resizing the windows > partition, but there was also some indications that this is a little > complex. > > I have thought of a solution on which I want to get some views. I have > spare > USB External Hard disk lying around in my desk. So i thought maybe I can > install Linux on this and boot from this USB drive when I want to use > Linux. Well I myself have never did an installation on a USB harddisk, but perhaps this will be helpful. http://www.dinkercharak.com/comp/linux-usb.htm If you manage to go some steps further then do reply. I would be really glad if anyone could point out the potential problems I > might face with this sort of setup. > > Thanks. > > -- > Puneet > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- o1p2e3n4g5l6 http://saleem.a.ansari.googlepages.com/ http://www.jmilug.org/ http://www.csijmi.com/ Linux User #414799 (http://counter.li.org/) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ --------------------------------- Explore your hobbies and interests. Click here to begin. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
