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Hi. I am planning on going to college in the fall. The laptop I will be using will have WIN XP with SP2. Horrible. Anyway, I have the bare.i boot disk from Slackware. Will this work on booting from an external hard drive? I would also like to know one other thing. Do the Slackware 9.1 Packages work in Amigo? because I would like to program for Linux, possibly help you guys out.
I believe to boot from an external hard drive you need to have a BIOS that supports that. The BIOS must be able to read from somewhere to load the kernel into memory, and that will only work if the BIOS has support built in. Go into yours and see if it is listed among the possibilites that you can chose and order.
Yes, Slack 9.1 packages are what forms the core of Amigo2 and so any more that you add will work the same as with regular slack.
Do you mean use a boot floppy and then mount an external HD (USB) as the root file system? If the Amigo boot floppy doesn't work try the one for RUNT-3.0.
thanxs, cause I plan to maybe write code in Amigo 2 so I can help the Linux cause. And yes I would use the external drive to install Amigo on, which will a Fat 32 drive so I can add my packages through Win XP if the Internet doesn't work through Amigo.
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Hi. I am planning on going to college in the fall. The laptop I will be using will have WIN XP with SP2. Horrible. Anyway, I have the bare.i boot disk from Slackware. Will this work on booting from an external hard drive? I would also like to know one other thing. Do the Slackware 9.1 Packages work in Amigo? because I would like to program for Linux, possibly help you guys out. 
