On 9/22/07, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > I would be really glad if anyone could point out the potential problems I > might face with this sort of setup. > > Thanks. > > -- > Puneet
This thing was a little too easy. The only problem i faced was that i needed to dowload a special dell remastered version of Ubunty 7.04 because it requires some additional packages. I plugged in my USB disk, booted from the CD. Clicked on install, it asked me partitionig details, i selected my USB disk which was mounted as /dev/sdb and then a couple of 'Next' clicks and the installation started and finished fairly fast with no problems. Rebooted the bootloader came up, first booted into windows to check if everything was allrite with it. It was. Rebooted into Ubuntu, a disk check was forced, then it restarted again(is this normal?). No problems with detecting my Wi-Fi either. Just selected the network and here I am writing this mail. Dont know what I was worried about. -- 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/
