Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

[Peter Domanski]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Peter Domanski wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>  
> I'd say that in a "few years" a vast amount has changed.  Typically a
> computer is kept for 3 years or less (at least as a primary machine), and
> I'd be really surprised if any laptop less than 3 years old couldn't boot
> off an external media.  
>
> Now, that doesn't actually mean they can boot off _all_ external media.  I
> tried to set up a bootable external drive for my father-in-law this winter,
> but the media was pathetic - from day one it was full of disk errors.  Of
> course, it _was_ cheap :-)
>   
Ha Ha Ha, ough come on I'm still working on my 10 year old P4 2.66 ghz 
PC i got in Hight School.  I'll take your word for it that you can boot 
OS from an external USB HD now a days. But I'm sticking to my story that 
the last time I tried to do so I had a heck of a time.


O well you learn something new every day.