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
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