[3dem] Booting Netbook using external Hard Disk

Steven Ludtke sludtke at bcm.edu
Mon Feb 2 12:53:01 PST 2009


On most modern laptops, booting off an external disk is no problem at  
all. If you can't do it directly, another approach is to
install GRUB (the bootloader) on the laptop drive, and also put a  
small partition on the laptop drive with the /boot
directory from linux on it. Once the kernel has started, linux will  
recognize the external drive and can complete booting
from it. The /boot partition is tiny (something like 10 megabytes).
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On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Anindito Sen wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Please share with me your experience of booting your notebooks/ 
> netbooks using an external hard disk.
>
> I have installed the Ubuntu LINUX on my netbook. Because of it  
> limited hard disk space - (4GB SSD) I want boot my Netbook (ASUS 1.6  
> Ghz) using an external hard disk (Toshiba 250GB in this case) with   
> LINUX installed on it and use Chimera (BSOFT, EMAN if possible)  
> installed on it. What will be the approach to do install LINUX on  
> the external hard disk and possibly the software packages?
>
> Thanks
> Andy
>
>
> Dr. Anindito Sen (Ph.D) Research Associate , Dept. of Biochemistry  
> and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia Box 800733  
> Charlottesville, VA 22908
>
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