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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installing unix. Post 302103702 by BOFH on Saturday 20th of January 2007 07:28:38 PM
Old 01-20-2007
I'd have to test a few things for that situation. For example, what sort of external drive are you talking about? Most likely it's a USB drive. Your BIOS would have to support booting from a USB device. I've heard some newer machines have that capability. If yours is one, that's the first hurdle.

Next is whether the unix you decide to use will also recognize a USB device as something you could install to. Then that it's booting from a USB device.

I don't think it's impossible, but maybe not something a new unix user would want to tackle.

As for repartitioning your drive, I think that's a better solution. You'd have to either rebuild your Windows box or get a repartitioning software package like Partition Magic. With that, you can shrink your Windows volume down by the 10Gig you want to use and then you could use pretty much any Linux distro to install to the new partition. There are numerous HOWTO's on how to install Linux and manage it properly in Windows.

Carl
 

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grub-install

GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB on your drive

SYNOPSIS

       grub-install [OPTION] install_device

DESCRIPTION

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -v, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --root-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory

       --grub-shell=FILE
	      use FILE as the grub shell

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --force-lba
	      force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS

       --recheck
	      probe a device map even if it already exists

       INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

       grub-install  copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the
       boot sector.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub(8), update-grub(8).

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package.  If  the  info  and  grub-install
       programs are properly installed at your site, the command

	      info grub-install

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)					   January 2013 						   GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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