External hard drive for experimentationForum: Hardware Talk Topic: External hard drive for experimentation started by: faroutscience Posted by faroutscience on Oct. 07 2005,00:00
My new mini itx system (m10000) is now fully operational. I would like to install an external hard drive for experimentation. I would like to have it to test alternative linux versions while maintaining my operational system on the internal drive. I was thinking of an external case for a 3.5" drive possibly running through a usb port. Does anyone have experience or suggestions along these lines? Thanks, Jeff Posted by John on Oct. 29 2005,06:22
I am sure you could do it with any Linux distribution that is set up to be bootable via sda. So you could have: DSL Puppy MandrakeMoves (some of the DSL knockoffs) Knoppix ZipSlack Others I can't rercall Posted by hawki on Oct. 29 2005,12:07
HiBooting from USB drives works great. I have booted from all sorts of external drives including a cdrom drive in a 5.25" enclosure. The only requirement usually is that you make and boot from the USB boot floppy or that your BIOS allows you to set it up to boot from a USB device. Most older systems can't. So making and using the USB floppy is your best option. good luck |