Squeeky

I have a usb hard disk with a 80gb drive inside and i was wondering how hard it is to intall linux (hopefull suse) on the usb hard disk so that when i want to boot linux i can plug it in. This is partly because i only have a 40gb hdd in my laptop and if i dual booted 20 gb for each is poor i dont really want to buy another laptop disk so if it can be done please let me know or give me any pointers.

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FAQS:
Broadcom wireless in linux (SUSE)
Setup temp monitoring using lmsensors
Install Mp3 Divx and Xvid codecs (SUSE)

The_Jester

Don't install SuSE onto it. It'll suck. Install Damn Small Linux or Puppy - they're designed for this sort of task. You could even try linux from scratch, if you have the guts

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Squeeky

ok might try my own

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FAQS:
Broadcom wireless in linux (SUSE)
Setup temp monitoring using lmsensors
Install Mp3 Divx and Xvid codecs (SUSE)

dangerousHobo

LFS is not too bad, but a friend and I tryed it. Learned a lot but also lots of headaches, lol. If you want to try it go for it, but DSL would probably be the best otherwise. If you really wanted SuSe, I think it'd might work if you stripped it down a bit.

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Squeeky

yer it would work but at the moment i need to find a pc that i dont care about and test it. The problem is all the pcs i dont care about are old and cant boot from usb disk

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FAQS:
Broadcom wireless in linux (SUSE)
Setup temp monitoring using lmsensors
Install Mp3 Divx and Xvid codecs (SUSE)

The_Jester

Check this out

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/

I may make it my Summer Project. I hope to make it distrobutable and designed for overclockers

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Squeeky

um my acer aspire 3000 laptop wont actuarly let me boot from usb - That i can see. i might just try pluggin it in a seeing what happens. Does anyone know a boot cd that can boot your usb devices ?

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FAQS:
Broadcom wireless in linux (SUSE)
Setup temp monitoring using lmsensors
Install Mp3 Divx and Xvid codecs (SUSE)

dangerousHobo

Ubuntu has something now that lets you use the live cd and save your work and setting to the usb flash drive. Just a thought.

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drummer4lifex

Dude, dual booting 20 GBs should be fine. Or 15/15 and 10 for transfering data. Unless you're doing a lot of bittorrent and have a lot of mp3s, you should be fine.

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Squeeky

well programming java etc anyways did it on usb drive and used ndiswrapper to get broadcom drivers

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FAQS:
Broadcom wireless in linux (SUSE)
Setup temp monitoring using lmsensors
Install Mp3 Divx and Xvid codecs (SUSE)