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    Booting from external usb question

    Discussion in 'eMachines' started by stylee, Mar 18, 2005.

  1. stylee

    stylee Notebook Guru

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    Do the m68xx allow booting from an external usb drive? I have an external drive that I want to install linux on and run it, either gentoo or mandrake. Has anyone installed either of these on an external usb drive and got it to boot from it? Thanks.

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    M6809 • WinXP Pro SP2 • Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0ghz • 7200rpm 60GB • 4200rpm external 80GB • 512mb pc2700 • Radeon 9600 @ 418.5/209.25 • 3DMark2001 11272 • 3DMark03 2945 • AquaMark3 25475
     
    stylee, Mar 18, 2005
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  2. Kane

    Kane Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have you found out if this could be done?

    Just scavenge an old laptop hard disk and trying out Linux. Don't want to keep swapping HD or do a dual boot on my M6809 HD... just in case something really screws up!
     
    Kane, May 20, 2005
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