Two questions

[Michael Whapples]

Tyler Littlefield writes:

> hmm. could you then, use a boot simulator to just boot? or create a grub
> boot disk?
> I don't think grub will work on a windows system will it?
> So, if something were to be written, the harddrive would have to be
> detected.
Not sure quite what you mean, grub can be used on dual boot machines, so it 
is compatible with windows as far as that goes. I think it might be only 
possible to configure it through linux, may be that is what you mean. I 
would probably would use one of the following things below:
Install lilo or grub onto a floppy disk, or if some other media is taking 
over for booting from (and is normally first in the BIOS list use that), and 
get that to boot linux off a external drive (if it works, not sure not done 
that before). This method offers greatest portability, plug in your external 
drive, stick in the floppy, off you go. Well that is the theory, as most 
computers check the floppy before hard disks. 
The other that I am sure would work, but probably will be less portable, use a standard USB storage device, 
and use the BIOS boot sequence (setting USB as first). Unfortunately this 
requires BIOS support, and is not available on some older computers.

Both option probably will need USB (if USB is used) built in to the kernel 
rather than modules.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Villa" <villar at earthlink.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Two questions
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>> The answer to the first question is that you can let the installation
> process set up the partitioning for you keeping in mind that Fedora 5
> installation will need to be done via telnet if you can't see to read the
> screen.
>>
>> I am not sure why you might wish to install on to an external disk unless
> you would want to take your system from location to location.  I believe
> however, that the boot information has to be on the drive that will be used
> to start the boot up process.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Robin Williams" <robster3 at hotmail.com>
>> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:05 AM
>> Subject: Two questions
>>
>>
>> > Hi all, I'm about to do my first independent installation of Fedora core
> 5 and I have two questions. The first is a bit basic.
>> >  I've just had to format my laptop and lost all my data, and stupidly
> forgot that linux needs to run on an ext2 or ext3 partition, instead I
> created two fat32 partitions one of which has windows and the other on which
> I planned to install linux. Should I delete this partition and install
> Fedora on the free space or can I leave it there and have the Fedora
> installation convert it to ext3? If I should delete it which is the best
> way? I'm thinking about using parted in grml but am a bit nervous.
>> >
>> >  Secondly is it possible to install Fedora to an external hard drive? I
> know you can boot in to it from one when beginning the installation but am
> not sure if it will pick up the drive when I go to install. If it's possible
> has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with running Fedora core from
> an external drive?
>> >
>> >  Thanks for any help.
>> > Robin Williams
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