Re: Debian on USB external Harddisk drive

2006-03-29 Thread marelin
Hello Kalyan, If the little challenge is ok for you, then why not install on usb-stick? This should be at least as fast as a harddrive, and if it doesn't work as expected then you surely can make use of the stick in other ways. It's not the cheapest solution, because you probably need 1GB, (th

Re: Debian on USB external Harddisk drive

2006-03-24 Thread Gabriele Pongelli
> - Does the GRUB bootloader recognizes external USB harddisk on which > debian will be installed i've tried to install grub on a usbpen and grub (on hdd) recognize the pen like (hd1) so you can run linux on the usb hard drive using grub command with (hdX) That is not important. I thi

Re: Debian on USB external Harddisk drive

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! Everything without testing! > I have a laptop running Windows XP (sorry for this). But I would like to > use Debian without touching the OS on my laptop, since the laptop is > provided by my company where I work. I got one Idea of buying an external > USB harddisk drive (such as toshiba or

Debian on USB external Harddisk drive

2006-03-24 Thread Kalyan Kumar R
Hi,   I have a laptop running Windows XP (sorry for this). But I would like to use Debian without touching the OS on my laptop, since the laptop is provided by my company where I work. I got one Idea of buying an external USB harddisk drive (such as toshiba or philips available in the market at th