Thomas Jollans wrote:
steef wrote:
hi all,
a friend of mine asked me to install debian_sarge on his machine:
with the netinstaller; for the first time. he is getting fed up with
xp.he has got an empty hd on a usb-port.
my question: does the installer recognizes: sees this usb_harddisk?
or is this something for the bios opf his machine?
it confuses me. he told me knoppix (something different from sarge)
could see it).
thanks,
steef
just try it.
recognizing the hd during install is the installer's job, booting
from/with it is the BIOS or grub's job. If you can sqash a /boot
partition on an IDE drive, there should be no problems because then it
would be the kernel's job, which should do it. you may have to install
with 'linux26'
hi thomas and nai,
it is as you suggested: the bios on the laptop with a hd on an usb-port
did not allow to boot from the partition on the external hd (usb_port)
while the debian installer recognized without a problem the hd as
*sda*_device. we lost the mbr with the xp-installer on another internal
hd in the laptop (4 years old) but could fix that easily with the
dos-repaircommands fixmbr fixboot
so we try to install debiansarge on a hd within another machine next
week. that should not cause/give any trouble. than my friend can get rid
of xp on that machine. he is a cautious character, so he decided to keep
xp installed on his old laptop for the time being.
it was for us a nice experiment up till now.
thanks for yopur advices,
steef
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