Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

[Peter Domanski]

The reason I'm saying this is because I once tried to boot linux from an
external USB HD and had a wicked time trying to make it boot. Eventually I
gave up.  But that was few years back so maybe things changed since, If so
then I retract my statement.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
wrote:

> Peter Domanski wrote:
>
> > Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> NoOp wrote:
> >>
> >>> How many Dell laptops do you know of with a second hard drive?
> >>>
> >>
> >> How many won't support an external drive?
> >>
> > An external hard drive that you can boot to? Can't think of many.
>
> I'm not sure you said what you mean :-)  You "can't think of many" that
> _would_ or _would not_ boot from an external drive?
>
> I would be willing to bet that any Dell laptop new enough to get an XP
> logo
> will boot from an external USB drive - the standard BIOS has supported it
> at least since my last Dell, which is just over 4 years old now.
> --
> derek
>
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