Re: External hard drive problem

2004-09-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:28:17AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > The problem with that is that it's much slower than a hard drive > install. Keep that in mind while you finish your coffee waiting for > OpenOffice to post it's first frame on your display... > > I've used www.sysresccd.org to resiz

Re: External hard drive problem

2004-09-16 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:32 +0100, Simon Capstick wrote: > > The easiest way for you to use Linux without touching the HD in your laptop > would be to simply use and run a Knoppix CD. You could use your firewire HD > to store all your linux related data. The problem with that is that it's much

Re: External hard drive problem

2004-09-16 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: > >> > >> Please, could you help me ? > > > > I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire > > drive r

Re: External hard drive problem

2004-09-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: >> >> Please, could you help me ? > > I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire > drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to > work instal

Re: External hard drive problem

2004-09-16 Thread Simon Capstick
On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 10:45, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: > > Please, could you help me ? > > I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire > drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to > work

Re: External hard drive problem

2004-09-16 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote: > > Please, could you help me ? I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to work installing by hand with 'Debian from scratch'. -- Karl