Re: Dual boot with usb
On 26 Apr 2005, at 11:39, José Manuel Pérez wrote:
Hi all.
I have an iBook G4 (12 inches) and till las week dual boot with OSX
and Debian. Debian crashed (I can´t access partition) and would like
to instakll again it. But now, I have an external usb hard disk into
wich I would like to install Debian. I've been searching (google, mac
web, etc) and I've not found anything about it. It's posible to
install Debian in an external udb disk and boot it? Internal disk
would have OSX.
Yes it is possible, I have debian installed on an external firewire HD.
I am not an expert at all, but I can tell you there are several
options, depending on where you want to put the yaboot partition and
your kernel. I personally have everything on the external HD so that
if I turn on the computer with it connected it boots into debian,
otherwise into OSX. In my experience the simplest thing to do is to
first put your yaboot and root partitions on the main HD (root only
needs to be very small if you have other partitions for /usr /home
/var), everything else on the external HD, then transfer them to the
external one. It allows for easy trial and error.
What you will need is the OpenFirmware device path for your USB HD.
HTH
--
Arnaud
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