On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 08:10 -0700, Bob A wrote: > Hi, > > Im greatly interested in learning linux and wish to > install debian distribution onto an external disk > drive. > Here are my machine specifications: > Processor: Pentium4 > Existing OS: Windows XP Home edition > 120GB external hard disk > > Please help me regarding the steps to follow to > partition my external hard disk, setup the boot loader > to direct it to external hard drive and basic steps > for installing debian through the internet.
Boot from a Debian CD. If the installation program can see the external drive, you simply choose that one to install on; if you allow it to do so, it will construct its own default partitioning scheme. If it cannot see the external drive, you will need to load the appropriate drivers. Since you don't say how your drive is connected, I can't say what they would be. If the BIOS does not see the drive as a boot option, you may have to write a boot CD with a kernel and initial root image (initrd) on it. Once you have a system that can boot into Debian, you can install further packages over the net. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== Do you want to know God? http://www.lfix.co.uk/knowing_god.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
