I have read people saying it is possible but no real explanation on how.

I want to install linux redhat to boot up on an external firewire drive. I am trying to install with cd's set up by my school (University At Buffalo) www#cit#buffalo#edu/linux/ (darn url rule just need help here thought this would help obviously #=.) They set up an installatin they call UBlinux. I'm not real familiar with linux.. YET but I need to get it installed so I can start learning it. I can't install it to my internal hard drive on my dell latitude since I need windows to run Visual Studio .NET amongst other things.

If anyone knows how to do this I would greatly apreciate it. I don't know to many details as to what I am using to partition etc.... since it is all set up by the install cds.

Thank You,

- Andy in Buffalo

Hi Andy,

Seems to me that the biggest issue you've got is whether your BIOS supports booting from an external firewire drive. That's nothing to do with Linux or Windows. If it does work, and Red Hat supports the hardware, it should be no problem to install from the CDs.

I'm not sure why the website recommends against putting linux and windows on the same hard drive. Since UBlinux seems to be a customised version of Red Hat and Red Hat (not to mention pretty much every other distro) works fine on a partition. It might be worth checking with whoever supplies UBlinux to see if there is a good reason for the separate hard drive thing.

If all else fails, you could always use a CD-based distro such as Knoppix.