Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Installing UNIX and booting from External Hard Drive

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing UNIX and booting from External Hard Drive
# 1  
Old 01-15-2011
Installing UNIX and booting from External Hard Drive
Hello
I have a new project being kicked off next month and i should learn UNIX fast. I have never used UNIX before so i have the following questions:

1) Is any UNIX free to install?
2) Can i install and boot UNIX from an External Hard Drive (The system board on my laptop crashed so i took the hard drive out and it works fine as an external hard drive)
3) What are the steps to install UNIX on an external hard drive.

I really appreciate your help.
# 2  
Old 01-15-2011
Download the ubuntu or any other free distribution from their webiste
and burn the image to cd or DVD and first run it as live CD (live cd means you dont have to install it in your hard disk)

for more information just search in this forum. you will get more and more details
This User Gave Thanks to itkamaraj For This Post:
pipsonian
# 3  
Old 01-15-2011
some notes:

- unix != UNIX != linux
- maybe a virtualizer tool is more handy (vmware, virtualbox)
This User Gave Thanks to DukeNuke2 For This Post:
pipsonian
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

External hard drive

I have connected an external hard drive. I can't find it. Both ls /media, fdisk -l and ls /dev show nothing. TIA (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Meow613
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to copy all files of a said type on my external hard drive

My code is this, what I'm trying to accomplish is to make a list of all pdf documents in my computer and then copy all of those documents to my external hard drive in a directory mkdir /Volumes/Hardrive-1/allpdf echo "File Locations" > /Volumes/Hardrive-1/allpdf/FileLocations.txt mdfind pdf... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: darpness
2 Replies

3. Ubuntu

How to install Ubuntu11 in external Hard drive

Hi Guys.. I want to install Linux on my portable hard drive. I created a 20GB partition in my hard drive for linux, Now I want to make it bootable mean when I connect it to system n start the system it will start the LINUX and when start without usb-hard drive it should start the windows. ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: atul9806
3 Replies

4. Solaris

Boot Solaris off of an old external hard drive

Hi Folks, First a little background, I am working on a ship that operates in the Indian Ocean and Persian/Arabian gulf area. We had a Sunblade 2000 that finally died. The Video board burned up and I guess damaged the mother board. So we ordered 2 rebuilt 2000s one as a spare. Due to mounting... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Sean.kelly
1 Replies

5. SCO

Booting problem due to adding hard drive incorrectly

I have tried to (unsuccessfully) add an old drive to get drivers (for the 3Com network card) onto a Sco Openserver 5.1 server. Now it wont boot: I used Sco Admin to do this. It have 3 scuzzi drives I added an IDE I think what I did wrong was add the IDE to existing space, and I should not have... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: lappies67
6 Replies

6. Solaris

USB External Hard Drive for Solaris 10 Sparc

Hi- I would like to know if anyone has used any USB External Hard Drive, about 500/750GB or 1TB, with any of the Solaris 10 "SPARC" systems. Not on intel nor amd platform. I'm looking for the compatible drive and found a few listed on Sun solaris ready page, but I'd like to have inputs from... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: agfa_109
3 Replies

7. HP-UX

Mounting an external parallel hard drive

Can anyone please walk me through how to mount an external parallel (or scsi) hard drive in visualize C3000 machine? I also would like to mount "/var/sallie" directory in that external drive. My "/var/sallie" directory is running out of space so I would like to mount an external hard drive so that... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: sallysallie
0 Replies

8. Ubuntu

External Hard drive won't mount

i have a Simple Tech hard drive that i use between two computers. it is formatted to ntfs. i have a dell desktop with Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP Home. and i have a laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04. the laptop recognizes the hard drive on both 8.04 and 7.10 but my desktop... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Texasone
9 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

External SCSI hard drive

Someone gave me a small external SCSI hard drive for my SunOS 5.8 test system. How do I make Unix see the hard drive? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: FredSmith
2 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

listing directories of an external hard drive

How do I do it? I have a mac and a pc and am having a time cd-ing to the external drive. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: theGooch
2 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question