Using External USB Drive for Linux Installation
Bruce Dawson
jbd at codemeta.com
Thu Dec 30 11:21:01 EST 2004
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 11:05, Travis Roy wrote:
> Of course...
> As long as the bios supports booting from a USB device, as many now do,
> you shouldn't have any issues.
> > Hi all,
> > I currently have a Dell inspiron 5150 running XP with a nearly full
> > drive. I also want to run linux( fedora ) on this laptop but don't want
> > to hassle with having to swap hard drives from the built in bay.
> > Is it possible/feasable to run Linux from one of those external usb
> > drive's?
> > thanks,
> > Mark
Except I haven't found a distribution that will install onto an external
USB drive without a lot of "at point X, press Alt-F2 and type this
command...". And finding those instructions is very difficult, rarely
clear, and assumes you know a lot about how the release is put together.
If someone can prove me wrong, I'd love to know about it!
--Bruce
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