Is it possible to install to a FireWire external drive?
I currently run Windows XP and want a dual boot system. I don't want to repartition as it's a pain in the posterior anatomy. I happen to have an 80GB external hard drive (FireWire) lying around and I was wondering if I could somehow boot Linux with it. (I would install LILO on the MBR of my main HDD)
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I'd bet that you'd need at least a 10MB boot partition on the internal drive.
Then again, does lin4win still exist out there? If so, this might get you there. Search here and goole for lin4win - it used to come with the redhat install CD's in something like dostools directory... |
Well, if it's that easy, I have an old 4GB HDD that used to be in my other comp (upgraded) that I could put in there, and then set that to boot linux. I'd need to know how to install most of my Linux files to my FireWire drive (which I don't know how to set up for Linux)
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ahhh, no prob!
install your 4GB drive and partition in 3 buckets. I'll assume this is your second hdd: Code:
partition size mount point (I'm assuming the device name of your firewire drive is /dev/scd0 Code:
fdisk /dev/scd0 Code:
mkdir /mnt/temp (I used "/home" as what you want to put on the external drive. You could put something like "/usr/local", depending on what you mean by "most of my Linux files to my FireWire drive") |
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