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Can I boot LinuxPPC on a external firewire drive?
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Opus
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Sep 5, 2001, 08:10 PM
 
Wondering if I can install Linux on an external Firewire drive and boot from that, instead of partitioning part of the internal drive?
     
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Sep 6, 2001, 09:33 AM
 
Originally posted by Opus:
<STRONG>Wondering if I can install Linux on an external Firewire drive and boot from that, instead of partitioning part of the internal drive? </STRONG>
if the linux distro supports firewire, yes, but i dont know any that do
     
   
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