Re: External hard drive problem
On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 10:45, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:52 +0200, Massimo Perga wrote:
> > Please, could you help me ?
>
> I don't think that the installer will support installing to a firewire
> drive right now. (unless they fixed that) You may be able to get it to
> work installing by hand with 'Debian from scratch'.
>
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> Karl Hegbloom
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Another method maybe to boot from a Knoppix CD where you should be able to
access the disk, partition it, format it and install debian from Knoppix.
The problem will come when trying to boot Linux from the firewire disk.
Perhaps you create a Linux boot CD that can find the firewire disk and then
start the boot process on it. This all sounds like advanced stuff so I
wouldn't recommend it if you're just starting out with Linux.
The easiest way for you to use Linux without touching the HD in your laptop
would be to simply use and run a Knoppix CD. You could use your firewire HD
to store all your linux related data.
http://knoppix.org/
Simon
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