Request for comments: Laptop improvements
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Thu Jun 15 22:03:20 UTC 2006
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, David Timms wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:02 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
>>> Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 08:31 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>>>>> 2. Able to boot or instigate boot from external usb / firewire hdd.
>>>>> Reason is employer does not like employees screwing with work provided
>>>>> notebooks. This would allow more home usage of linux (even when you are
>>>>> not allowed to), whether it be a live distros or complete installs.
>>>> This functionality should be present in test1. Having testing from
>>>> other people would be greatly appreciated!
>>> This is very machine-dependent. My current machine just can't boot from
>>> USB
>>> or Firewire. Next one does...
>>
>> Very much known -- that's why we warn you that it may or may not work
>> depending on your BIOS when you attempt to do it
> On the dark-side: could the installer (or something) else make a boot entry
> to a PC's fat (ntfs?) boot.ini that allows boot of the external drive ?
I can't imagine why not. There is a program to do this for cd-roms. (I
would have to look on one of my old Linux Format discs to find it. I
don't remember the name.)
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