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Re: Can I ?
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:46 pm
by badmotor
infectedArcAngle wrote:come on cant someone help! i really want to start using linux and learn how it works but i cant unless i find out how to work it on an external.
It hasn't been long since your original post. If you just be a little more patient, eventually someone will come along that can help you out.
Re: Can I ?
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:27 pm
by Fred
infectedArcAngle
Yes you can run Mint on an external drive.
Download and burn the latest stable version of Gparted. Use it to shrink something on your first internal drive so you can make a small ext2 partition of about 64 MB. Make a partition for your swap, root, and home on your external drive.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=271779
Reboot with the Mint install disk and use manual partitioning when you get to that point. Assign your boot partition to the internal drive and the other partitions on the external drive. Let it install grub to the mbr of the first internal drive.
Enjoy,
Fred