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hello i know this is a stupid question, however i think i know the answer. anyway is it possible to run linux off a external hard drive. so when i what to run it i will just have to plug it in. i think my bio's will let me do this. the reason for this is that i am not the only person that uses this laptop. the others do not what liunx on it.
Conventional wisdom is that that's a bad idea - constant writing wearing the hell out of your drive very quickly, etc. Do you have any reason to believe that's not a problem?
Conventional wisdom is that that's a bad idea - constant writing wearing the hell out of your drive very quickly, etc. Do you have any reason to believe that's not a problem?
i do not get where you or coming from. i was going to use a new external hard drive that only runs liunx. it would be getting booted up straight from the external hard drive, just like a internal hard drive. so explain how constant writing would wear the hell out of the drive very quickly. when it does not wear the internal drive out quickly. i just don't get were you or coming from. pls explain it more thank you
i just don't get were you or coming from. pls explain it more thank you
Read what I quoted when I said that. That comment applies to using flash memory for swap, in reference to a suggestion by Mr-Bisquit that you use a flash drive instead of an external hard drive.
Read what I quoted when I said that. That comment applies to using flash memory for swap, in reference to a suggestion by Mr-Bisquit that you use a flash drive instead of an external hard drive.
^ i gathered that by the body of the thread but i almost didnt click on it because i thought it had to do with ubuntu.
the title would be more effective with something like 'how-to install linux on a usb drive'. then it would get the attention of those who know something about usb hard drives...
If you plan on using Ubuntu, you can run the Ubuntu Live USB Creator (usb-creator) to install it to the external USB Hard Drive, or thumbdrive. It's a ver useful tool when you have other users to worry about and their preferences of operating systems.
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