Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Derrik Pates
Gregory Seidman wrote: This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered puttin

Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Derrik Pates
Gregory Seidman wrote: This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting

Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread intrigeri
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a > couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that > changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? Hello, it is possible, but you have to play with ramdisks ;

Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread intrigeri
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a > couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that > changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? Hello, it is possible, but you have to play with ramdisks ;

Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd lik

Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd lik