On Mar 24, 10:07 am, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, I wish I could do that. Taking the CDs out of the drive can be > > a struggle when you restart the machine. My current machine can't > > boot from flash drives. If I buy a usb hard drive, then it might > > work. > > If it can't boot from a flash drive, then it's unlikely to be able to > boot from a USB hard drive. >
I don't know. My computer is kind of weird. The BIOS has a bunch of different boot options (CD, USB hard drive, IOMEGA zip disk, etc.) But there's nothing there for flash drives. I haven't been able to get it to boot from a flash drive. And It'll occassionaly lock up when it boots if I forget to unplug a USB mp3 player before restarting. My Sansa Express player was causing it lock up. > > But those aren't exactly cheap. They seem to cost considerably > > more than regular hard drives. > > Get an old EIDE laptop drive. The most number of partitions you can > have on a drive is 15 or 16 anyways (you can have more but the OS > won't see them). So you only need at most a 20 GB HDD (or get a > larger HDD and play musical chairs). Then get a IDE to USB converter > for about $25. > > > It would be cool to put an army of live cds on one usb hard drive, and > > then create a boot option letting you select which one you want to > > use. > > That's pretty close to my current setup. I designated one partition > as vfat with a grub menu for all the distros on the drive. All > remaining partitions are individual OSes with grub installed to the > first sector of the partition. > > Here is an older photo of what that looks like: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwcitek/2547600614/ > > Notice one of the options is Knoppix. > > Regards, > - Robert Oh, that's totally cool. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
