Hi,
I can't wait to install Ubuntu onto my computer but due to the limited hard-drive space available on my laptop I was hoping to set up a partition on my external hard-drive and install Ubuntu of that...
Will that work, will it give me dual-boot options every time I start up the computer? All answers appreciated
2006-12-07 01:12:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
You have to be sure that you can boot to an external drive (USB I'm assuming). Your laptop will probably try booting to your internal hard drive first and will not get to booting to the USB because it can boot to the internal drive. You might be able to choose which drive to boot to, depending on your laptop.
2006-12-07 01:15:26 · answer #1 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't mention how much hard drive space you have on your laptop, but I would dual-boot (Ubuntu recommends 5 gigs for its partition, plus 2x your current RAM for a swapfile). Right now, on my laptop, I have a 20 gig Windows partition, a 10 gig Ubuntu partition, a 1 gig swap file, and 25 gigs for shared files; documents, music, video. That last partition is FAT32, so both Windows and Ubuntu can read and write to it without problems (Linux can read NTFS, but I've been strongly advised not to write to it, and XP uses NTFS as a default file system). That gives me the most flexibility, because I have OpenOffice on both. Maybe it's worth a shot for you; I don't know that I'd want to run my OS off an external drive, because it is always going I'd imagine you'd see a performance lag.
2006-12-08 06:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by john_eitel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may work but actually I would not reccomend it because the drive being EXTERNAL will not have the connection speed to the actual laptop to run correctly...
I reccommend taking all of your music and personal files that are LARGE OFF of your laptop, freeing up some space that way, then doing a DUAL BOOT on the laptop and keeping your files on the EXTERNAL...
It may not work running it from an external drive, I use UBUNTU and I would never put it on a n external drive...
External drives connect through USB and USB is to slow to runa full operating system.
2006-12-07 01:15:52 · answer #3 · answered by Danlow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you placed interior the OSs in this order you will have not got any problems: Vista could be put in first residing house windows 7 could be put in next and you ought to use its boot loader to twin boot Vista and Win 7 Ubuntu could be put in final and its boot loader could be used to twin boot residing house windows (ie the Win 7 boot loader that boots the two Win 7 or Vista) or Linux. in case you do it this form you have gotten a lot much less subject down the line once you improve something. in case you install Ubuntu in the previous any of the residing house windows OSs, residing house windows will see Linux as a corrupted area of thepersistent and wipe it out (extreme-high quality interest Microsuck :P). i in my opinion would not triple boot Win7, Vista, and Ubuntu. i could twin boot Vista and Ubuntu and while Win 7 is in production i could improve Vista to Win 7. i could basically installation 2 residing house windows OSs if there became right into a legacy app that I nonetheless used that did no longer artwork on the Vista kernel (the kernel shared with the aid of Vista and Win 7).
2016-10-05 00:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the version of Unbuntu, several can be booted directy from the supplied CD. Which means that you never have to install it just put it your CD drive and off you go. When your finished, remove the CD.
2006-12-07 01:23:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋