[ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-22 Thread Puneet Lakhina
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

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-22 Thread Jasbir Khehra
On 9/22/07, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 September 2007 12:15, Jasbir Khehra wrote: [snip] Therefore, is my assumption correct that to enforce GPL compilance , the complainant has to be one of the following two individuals : a) Author of a GPLed software b) End

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-22 Thread Saleem Ansari
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

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-22 Thread Asheesh Varshneya
I have installed Ubuntu on my external hard disk. I had installed it in the normal way we do it for internal hard disk. The main problem i got was that i was able to boot the os on my pc but nowhere else . Lot of errors came when i had booted it on my friends laptop. Saleem Ansari [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-22 Thread Sahil Dave
this probably happened becoz your GRUB was in your internal HD's MBR and not your external USB HD.!! On 9/22/07, Asheesh Varshneya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Ubuntu on my external hard disk. I had installed it in the normal way we do it for internal hard disk. The main problem

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-22 Thread PJ
Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip bit about laptop with MS windows] 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

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-22 Thread Kazim Zaidi
[snip bit about laptop with MS windows] 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

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-22 Thread Linux Lingam
On 9/21/07, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The first lawsuit for GPL violation in the USA has been filed yesterday against Monsoon Multimedia, who were distributing busybox without making the source code available. This appears to be