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Question for the experts out there.
I've got an old laptop and have been mulling over installing Linux on it. Picked up a magazine today with a copy of ubuntu on it, any reason I couldn't install it onto a usb hard drive and boot run it off there if I have a fiddle with bios boot device sequence settings?
ie. boot Linux off usb if it's plugged in and off hard drive to windows if it isn't?
usb drive is 40gb. Was actually the c: drive up to me installing a bigger 120Gb drive in the laptop about a year ago and then sticking it in a caddy so the data on it was still available, never needed it so could easily reformat it.
I've got an old laptop and have been mulling over installing Linux on it. Picked up a magazine today with a copy of ubuntu on it, any reason I couldn't install it onto a usb hard drive and boot run it off there if I have a fiddle with bios boot device sequence settings?
ie. boot Linux off usb if it's plugged in and off hard drive to windows if it isn't?
usb drive is 40gb. Was actually the c: drive up to me installing a bigger 120Gb drive in the laptop about a year ago and then sticking it in a caddy so the data on it was still available, never needed it so could easily reformat it.