Re: Compatability with hard drives
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon,15.Sep.08, 23:09:24, Jimmy T wrote:
>> I am planning on using an exteranal harddrive to be my primary linux
>> drive for programming.will debian work when installed on an external
>> hard drive.
>
> I'm using one right now; it's even my primary boot device.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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It may or it may not:
What is the interface you want to use? Esata? Firewire? USB?
Does your motherboard allow for booting from external disk?
I do not know of a big problem in running Debian from an external
disk, and with Suse Linux I once installed it on an external USB disk
(oops). That was running just fine, no problem.
If there are problems they will PROBABLY be hardware related in this
specific case. I do not mean bad hardware, but simply not the
flexibility required for this specific feat.
Neil
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