Re: [vox-tech] USB/Firewire HDDs with laptop
I think newer BIOSes have configuration option to boot off of USB devices first, if any of them have a bootable image. At least you can on my desktop. Hopefully the laptops have caught onto that trend as well. -Mark On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > Are you wanting to boot Linux off the external drive? I don't believe > that is an easy thing to do. You probably want to dual boot linux and > windows on your internal drive. If you need more space, you can > subsequently set up mount points on the external drive for things like > /home, /opt, /usr/local, etc. > > Jonathan > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external > > drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop. > > > > I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and > > an external drive is the cheapest solution. > > > > I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free > > port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only > > the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work. > > > > Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated. > > > > Regards > > > > Ronald Bradford > > ___ > > 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 > -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] USB/Firewire HDDs with laptop
Are you wanting to boot Linux off the external drive? I don't believe that is an easy thing to do. You probably want to dual boot linux and windows on your internal drive. If you need more space, you can subsequently set up mount points on the external drive for things like /home, /opt, /usr/local, etc. Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop. I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and an external drive is the cheapest solution. I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work. Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated. Regards Ronald Bradford ___ 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
Re: [vox-tech] USB/Firewire HDDs with laptop
I have a couple of external usb drives and they seem to work just fine mounting them from /dev/sda. ( so it looks like a scsi drive to the kernel ) I am running Debian/testing or unstable. Good luck Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop. I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and an external drive is the cheapest solution. I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work. Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated. Regards Ronald Bradford ___ 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
[vox-tech] USB/Firewire HDDs with laptop
Hi All, Has anybody had experience with installing and using Linux on an external drive (USB/Firewire) for a laptop. I'm not ready to trash an existing HDD running M/S on newest laptop, and an external drive is the cheapest solution. I'm looking at installing CentOS (http://www.caosity.org/) a RHEL 3 free port, necessary as I'm wanting to trial Oracle 10g. Unfortunately, only the M/S laptop has enough ram (1GB) for it to work. Any feedback or experiences would be most appreciated. Regards Ronald Bradford ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
